Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, ...

According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius ...

The extrasolar planet or " exoplanet " in question is TOI-2109b, which has five times the mass of Jupiter and is located ...

Using the European Space Agency’s Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) telescope, a team of astronomers ...

Though our solar system and the movement of its planets appear relatively sedate, there are many things that could upset the ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...

For the study, the researchers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to analyze the atmospheres of exoplanets residing in the systems HR 8799 and 51 Eridani (51 Eri) with the direct imaging ...

“Even though physically, this exoplanet’s system is very dissimilar to our solar system — our home — it can still tell us a lot about the efficiency of these tidal dissipation processes, and how long ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

The TOI 4633 star system contains two Sun-like stars, a Neptune-like exoplanet, and a second, unconfirmed Jupiter-like world. Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundations ...