A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

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Astronomers have made a significant breakthrough in space exploration by discovering over 6,000 planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. This milestone has not only expanded our ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...