A gas giant planet in distant space has kicked the cosmic hornet's nest: After the world's relentless taunting, its fiery ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Mark your calendars, place your bets, grease your palms, blink open that third eye, and ready your wishes, my babies ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

EXCLUSIVE: Scientists say the discovery of a Jupiter-like planet promises to further understanding of planetary systems.

Jupiter's innards are full of the remains of baby planets that the gas giant gobbled up as it expanded to become the behemoth we see today, scientists have found.

Even though Jupiter, the fifth planet closest to the sun, outshines earth's direct neighbor by a wide margin, both planets should be easily visible to the naked eye from anywhere in the world as ...

"Jupiter was one of the first planets to form in our solar system," in the first few million years after the solar system took shape around 4.5 billion years ago, lead researcher Yamila Miguel, an ...