Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

Perhaps the most intriguing exoplanets found so far are those bigger than our rocky, oceanic Earth but smaller than cold, gas-shrouded Uranus and Neptune. This mysterious class of in-between planets ...

Far beyond the bright planets, in the dim outskirts of the Solar System, astronomers keep stumbling on objects that refuse to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A planet’s opposition occurs when Earth passes between it ...

Scorching planets that should be bone-dry may actually create their own water deep inside, forging oceans through molten rock ...

The presence of an enormous Neptune-sized exoplanet 90 light-years from Earth has been confirmed after it was first spotted in 2019. The study, published in The Astronomical Journal, confirms the ...

Three newly discovered worlds are among the smallest and nearest we've ever detected. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS — a super-powerful orbiting telescope designed to hunt for ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot ...

If Kepler 452b applied for the position of most Earthlike exoplanet, it would boast an impressive résumé. The newly discovered world (illustrated above) mimics our planet with a 385-day orbit around a ...