The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in AGU Advances hopes to address as an ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the distance ...

This is a montage of Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each shown in enhanced color. The images were taken over nearly ...

New NASA research has discovered that four moons that orbit the far outer planet — Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon — may have the composition to host life. It was discovered that these four of 27 ...

EVANSTON, Ill. — Except for the fact that we call it home, for centuries astronomers didn’t have any particular reason to believe that our solar system was anything special in the universe. But, ...

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Two Earth-like planets have been identified, including one which may hold the conditions necessary for life to flourish. The two exoplanets, LP 890-9b and LP 890-9c, were detected 100 light-years away ...

Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space ...