A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

NASA’s Kepler telescope has identified Kepler 452b, the most Earth like planet ever discovered, orbiting in the habitable zone of a sunlike star. This video explains why the find is so important, how ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Although astronomers have directly imaged a few dozen gas giants on the scale of Jupiter, Earth-sized planets are too small and dim to be directly imaged. That's not to say there's a shortage of Earth ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

This artistic impression shows the collision of two planetesimals in the young, evolving planetary system of Fomalhaut. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the dramatic aftermath of two violent ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

This weekend brings a prime opportunity to see the biggest planet in the solar system shining at its brightest all year. After dominating the night sky for more than a month, Jupiter will reach ...

"Our discovery offers further evidence that the galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Rogue ...