New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

In 2005, thanks to Michael Brown’s scientific antics, Pluto was removed from the list of planets in the solar system. In 1968, the Apollo 8 mission flew around the moon. In 2001, Chris Hadfield became ...

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Researchers say they found a curious dot on infrared images taken 23 years apart that seems to be moving in a manner ...

Macduff met the Herald this week at the Jupiter basalt marker along the Columbia Park Trail, just east of the blue bridge. It ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, surpassing the previous record-holder, Epsilon Indi Ab, which stands at around 35 ...

The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system was touted more than a century ago. In 1983 ...

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The presence of another planet in the solar system could explain the odd movements of some of the bodies in the Kuiper Belt.