Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...

The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is statistics. While it might not be as glamorous as directly imaging a ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Astronomers have been poring over last week's claim of the detection of life-associated gases in the atmosphere of a distant planet named K2-18b — "the strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today released Analysis-Ready PlanetScope (ARPS). ARPS harnesses a cutting-edge ...

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the Sun or any other star. The entity is termed a free-floating planet, a class ...