Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system, HD 110067, where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical ...

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Out in the depths of the solar system lie the far-off ice giant planets. Uranus and Neptune are extremely far away at 20 and 30 times farther from the sun than the Earth is, according to NASA, and ...

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

As scientists delve deeper into a star system with seven rocky worlds, the prospect of one being a habitable planet seems to be quickly fading. Researchers who used the James Webb Space Telescope, a ...

The orbiting Kepler telescope is all about the numbers. How many stars have planets? How many have multiple planets? What sizes do they come in? How many of these planets are about the same size as ...

Picture Venus. You know, the second planet from the sun, where the clouds are shot through with sulfuric acid and the surface is hot enough to melt lead. What color is it? For the longest time, I ...