A rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit and an ice giant that takes five years to complete its orbit have been detected orbiting ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through ...

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

Astronomers have observed a massive exoplanet, TOI-2109b, in a death spiral towards its host star. This real-time tracking of such an event is unprecedented.

It's out of this world. Or, more accurately, this solar system.On July 1, astronomers discovered an object near the orbit of ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the very first solid particles forming around a baby sun-like star, HOPS-315, over 1,300 light-years away. Using Nasa’s James Webb Telescope and ALMA in ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

In a cosmic first, astronomers have captured the birth of rocky planets around a baby sun-like star 1,370 light-years away.

In short, while Saturn is less dense than Earth and could float on water if it had a rigid surface keeping it together, in reality, the planet would be pulled apart as it sank into the water world, ...