A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Identifying the formation period of planetary systems, such as our solar system, could be the beginning of the journey to ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, the origins of the building blocks of life themselves." ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how planets form.

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet – a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest ...