An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

The telescope observed the ice giant for a full rotation, revealing how temperature and charged particles vary with altitude.

Now, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers have mapped the planet’s auroras in 3D for the first time.

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital art of distant planet - Dottedhippo/Getty Images On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by ...

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.