Astronomers spotted a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming within a dusty ring around its star system, offering clues about the ...

For Willie Shubert, journalism is a kind of cartography. “I studied geography,” he says. Mapmaking taught him how to see the ...

A team of astronomers took an actual photo of the first-known baby planet discovered in a gap of a star's protoplanetary disk.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

An international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have spotted ...

A baby world just drifting through space without a star to call home has been caught in a record-smashing feeding frenzy.

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record rate of 6.6 billion tons per second.

It’s something we’ve seen play out many times in Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and more, though few games let ...

Strange, quasi-circular circles structures called coronae scour the surface of Venus — but their origins are a mystery.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...