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

Here’s a wild fact: someday, our solar system might not look the way it does now, and it’s all because of white dwarfs. A white dwarf is what’s left when a star like our Sun burns out, and it can ...

NASA’s Chandra and Hubble telescopes have spotted a young Jupiter-like exoplanet, TOI 1227 b, rapidly losing its atmosphere due to intense X-ray radiation.

This week, momentum is building around nuclear fusion, as tech investment and breakthroughs suggest it may arrive sooner than ...

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

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

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

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

The bold question-askers at What If uncover how Jupiter's massive power influenced the formation of Earth and even life itself.

Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet's orbital decay, confirming it is spiraling toward its star in a cosmic death dance that could end in three possible ways.

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...