Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...

Further building up their weather map, the team also found that the poles are ... measure only the mass and the radius of planets outside the solar system. Today, telescopes like ESO's VLT already ...

A breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial life may be on the horizon as astronomers have uncovered 85 potential planets outside ... to those found within our own Solar System.

upending previous theories of how planets are formed and structured and giving scientists a tempting window into the otherworldly diversity of planets beyond our Solar System. Enaiposha, discovered in ...

She mapped our solar ... on the inner planets' habitability. They found some changes in obliquity—Mars "wobbled" a bit more, Simpson said—but overall, the inner solar system remained habitable.

To understand the Snapchat planet order, you will first have to imagine the exotic solar system that revolves around the Sun. Just like every planet in the solar system revolves around the Sun, here ...

A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed our cosmic neighborhood by warping the orbits of the four outer planets, a new study suggests.

“Since ancient times, only two genuine planets have been discovered, and this would make a third. It’s incredible to think such a significant piece of our solar system is still out there waiting to be ...

Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have conditions suitable for life. The planet is outside our solar system and has a mass six times greater than that of Earth.

This mysterious ninth planet could be found within the next ... One hint that there could be more to the solar system than we realise is the weird goings-on outside the Kuiper Belt, a doughnut ...