On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

Space experts believe that the 'Dracula' disc could offer new insights into planetary formation, especially in massive ...

Astronomers tracking a nearby star system thought they had spotted an exoplanet reflecting light from its star. Then it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Sep 18, 2025, 09:28pm EDT Sep 18, 2025, 09:29pm EDT Four ...

Since the discovery of exoplanets, a planet that orbits stars outside the solar system, astronomers and scientists have been astounded by the strange characteristics of these extrasolar planets. To ...

What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to new planets. Not only is it the largest planet-forming disk astronomers ...