Planets' temperatures are largely influenced by their structural characteristics and proximity to the Sun, however, Venus ...

Assuming that life appears whenever conditions are right, Struve calculates that one billion (one-fiftieth) of the galaxy’s 50 billion planets have life of some sort on them now. Not all life is ...

Seven planets will align in the night sky this month in a rare full planetary alignment, a celestial event that won't be seen again until the year 2040. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't react chemically with each other. But what if some of them do? UCLA and ...

All seven planets are going to line up in the night sky on Friday in a rare planetary parade that will not be repeated for another 15 years. The celestial display will see Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus ...

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) scientists of the Leiden Observatory (the ...

Our teams didn't coordinate with each other at all," Basant said. "That gives us a lot of assurance that these aren't phantoms in the data." These are among the smallest planets yet found with ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...