Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...

What will our solar system look like after the Sun dies? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hop | Space ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Using JWST, astronomers uncovered auroras, exotic clouds, and storms on a blazing rogue planet. Brilliant aurora-like displays, much like Earth’s Northern Lights, are the highlight of an unusual ...

Astronomers from Trinity College Dublin, using the James Webb Space Telescope, have observed strong auroral activity, akin to ...

Strong Northern Lights-like activity is the standout feature of today's weather report, which is coming at you from a strange, extrasolar world, instead of a standard TV studio. That is thanks to ...

The number of alien planets is monitored by NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI), based in Pasadena, California. But ...

NASA’s exoplanet tally has climbed to 6,000, revealing bizarre and beautiful worlds far stranger than our own.

Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds.