Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging ...

Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

NASA has taken a bold step in the search for alien life beyond Earth. The space agency announced the selection of seven ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

Relying on information from NASA's TESS telescope, astronomers Edward Bryant from the University of Warwick and Vincent Van ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets ...