The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

NASA scientists have determined that the Sun has increased in solar activity, defying expectations that it would enter a more ...

We like to think that our solar system is eternal, but one day, its very epicenter will die. Our Sun, like all stars, had a ...

The sun was heading into a long slumber, but started waking up in 2018, with high solar activity and fluctuating cycles that ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

An international team of planet hunters has found four new planets orbiting two nearby stars that are very similar to the Sun. These discoveries point the way to the detection of potentially habitable ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

The coldest planet in the Solar System is Uranus, which is surprisingly colder than Neptune due to its unique internal heat ...

Alongside the planets will be a nearly-full 'sturgeon moon' that will reach peak illumination on August 9. The planet parade will also be followed by the Perseid meteor shower, which will peak on the ...