Astronomers have recently unveiled the existence of giant planets that defy current models of planetary formation, ...

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

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting a star that resembles the fictional Vulcan home of Spock in Star Trek.

The celestial body is the youngest transiting planet found to date. Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space ...

For the first time, a planet has been discovered orbiting a white dwarf, also known as a dead star. This exoplanet, a planet outside of our solar system, is the size of Jupiter and it's known as WD ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is ...

This discovery was made by two of NASA’s most celebrated telescopes. This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothesized moon. On Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, two ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Researchers noticed the planet while searching through data collected by TESS. “TESS finds a planet by looking at a star, and it measures how bright the star is continuously for weeks,” Crossfield ...