Scientists may have been overestimating the size of the solar system’s biggest planet. New data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft ...

Polygon has rounded up the best icy sci-fi planets from our favorite video games, movies, television, and books ...

The planet HD 189733 b was discovered in 2005, as one of many huge gas worlds snuggled tightly against their suns. It gradually gained popularity for .

A planet parade is basically the nickname given when the planets in our solar system appear to line up in a roughly straight line from the Earth’s perspective. Just after sunset on 28 February, six of ...

On the evening of February 28, 2026, skywatchers will be treated to a rare spectacle as at least six planets become visible ...

From Jupiter shining bright to elusive Mercury near the horizon, the much-talked-about planet parade may be subtler than expected.

James Webb finds a hot planet that is tidally locked with its parent star, is coated with a thick atmosphere of volatile chemicals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...