New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the "habitable zone," the region around a star where ...

A rocky planet in the Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere, raising the possibility that life could exist on its surface, according to experts. TRAPPIST-1e, a planet belonging to a collection of ...

There are promising signs that one of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 star system, which lies about 40 light years from Earth, has an atmosphere capable of supporting life. But scientists will need to ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of exoplanets does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets ...

Our Solar System has four ringed planets. But Saturn's rings are the most magnificent and visible because they're made of highly reflective ice particles. Real Reason why Kaizer Chiefs are sacking ...

Our solar system has four ringed planets. But Saturn's rings are the most magnificent and visible because they're made of highly reflective ice particles. Though the rings appear solid from afar, they ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected gas on the distant dwarf planet, Makemake. Credit: NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute / A. Parker illustration Scientists have ...

The dwarf planet Ceres, the only dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt, might have once been hospitable for life, according to a recent study. NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA Ceres, the ...

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." The odd dwarf planet Quaoar might have a brand-new moon. Observations of the tiny ...