A new 3D map of Uranus is shedding light on one of the solar system's most mysterious planets.

The planet's lopsided magnetic field is twisting the light shows.

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus's upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's concept of exoplanet 55 Cancri e, also called Janssen, a so called super-Earth in this illustration released by NASA By ...

In Star Wars, Anakin Skywalker burned alive on the shores of a roiling lava planet called Mustafar, fueling his tumultuous transition into Darth Vader. Now, astronomers have found an atmosphere on a ...

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 ...

This illustration provided by NASA in 2017 depicts the planet 55 Cancri e, right, orbiting its star. A thick atmosphere has been detected around the planet, which is twice as big as Earth in a solar ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA) The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system ...

The lava world 55 Cancri e doesn’t have an atmosphere of vaporized rock after all, according to recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). A recent study suggests that 55 Cancri e — a ...

Twice as big as Earth, the super-Earth 55 Cancri e was thought to have lava flows on its surface. The planet is so close to its star, the same side of the planet always faces the star, such that the ...

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists have ...