The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

This landmark discovery of the planet – named TWA 7b – which was recently published in the journal Nature, came after an ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...

We like to think that our solar system is eternal, but one day, its very epicenter will die. Our Sun, like all stars, had a ...

Discover Our Solar System Through Detailed 3D Models Forget dusty textbooks and flat diagrams. We’re talking about ...

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Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter.

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the sky.

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...