A giant exoplanet has just been confirmed about 400 light-years from Earth. Named TOI-4465 b, it stands out with a mass six times greater than Jupiter's and unusual orbital characteristics.

It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled." — Mark Twain Ideas about our world have certainly changed over time. For example, people once thought that the earth was flat.

Uranus enters Gemini for the first time since World War II. Sobering, right? Especially considering the current waves of ...

Upgraded ALMA images expose hidden rings and spirals around baby stars, indicating planets begin taking shape mere cosmic ...

But an international team of astronomers have detected the unmistakable signature of a gas giant planet orbiting the ...

The event, titled "Out of This World," will feature the Massapequa Philharmonic performing composer Gustav Holst's masterwork ...

The outlook is promising for future long-term monitoring of planets across multiple wavelengths. Infrared imaging data from ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a “rogue planet” drifting through ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...