The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

Scientists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics found a single giant flare from a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly detected the faint glow of a planet that’s colder than any ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...