With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own ...

A "baby" planet that astronomers recently observed some 430 light-years from Earth may be the youngest planet ever discovered ... “Discovering planets like this one allows us to look back ...

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

On top of that, astronomers also discovered over 200 new planets in 2022, bringing the total known exoplanets up to over 5,000. The quest to find another world like Earth has been ongoing for ...

According to preliminary reports, the newly discovered planet resembles Earth more than any other detected planet does. It is a terrestrial planet three times the mass of Earth. Most importantly, like ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

Such research contributes to the broader objective of identifying Earth-like planets within habitable zones, where conditions may be conducive to life. This discovery arrives at a pivotal moment.

An artist’s impression of the two new planets discovered. An inner super-Earth, here seen transiting in front of the orange host-star and an icy giant planet on the periphery of the system.

Astronomers discovered ... planet. Researchers concluded that powerful jetstream winds around the equator would explain this unexpected result, and shows the planet has complex weather systems ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...