The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

In this illustration, WD 1856 b, a potential Jupiter-size planet, orbits its much smaller host star, a dim white dwarf. Credits ... confirmed that the exoplanet has a mass no greater than 6 times that ...

The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life outside of Earth.

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why Pluto isn't a planet.

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

Everything else — from the eight major planets to dwarf planets, comets ... in our solar system The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a giant rotating cloud of gas and ...

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Now officially labeled a “dwarf planet,” Pluto may have lost its title ... is about 153 Earth hours or 6.4 Earth days. Its surface temperature averages around -387°F. At that temp, not ...