A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Auroras are not just on Earth. NASA has detected glowing northern and southern lights on Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and other ...

Scientists find that deep molten rock can power long-lasting magnetic fields, helping large rocky planets hold onto their ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that connection measurable. Future transit-timing and atmospheric observations ...

When people speak of the northern lights, they are typically referring to Earth’s spectacular display of aurora borealis: ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has ...

"It really shows how much we still have to learn about planets, even in our own solar system." The post There’s Something ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

The ocean is warming as the upper atmosphere is cooling – both as a result of excessive greenhouse gas emissions.

Scientists say this powerful surge in solar activity could set the stage for the northern lights to appear as early as Thursday, Feb. 5 ...