An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen before. The exoplanet Enaiposha, or GJ 1214 b, is a hazy world ...

As our planet gets less habitable, the idea has popped up of moving to Mars while we give it a good scrub. ‘The Little Prince ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps around a planet ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

Researchers from Utrecht University have found in a study that there are two colossal peaks that reach heights of around 620 miles (1,000), in what have been described as 'islands'. They can be found ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

It looked like an asteroid, but it was a Tesla: the space mix-up involving the celestial object 2018 CN41 was resolved in a few hours. Initially cataloged as a new asteroid, it was later ...

Sky watchers are in for a treat this month as the stars align to give amateurs a shot to see six planets at once.

Scientists have found a planet with the fastest known winds in the solar system – its winds are 2,000 times faster than Neptune, which has the fastest winds in our solar system ...

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term habitability.