SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Out in the depths of space, in the huge swaths of blackness between star systems, you can find lonely, wandering rogue planets. These planets don’t orbit around a star but meander through the cosmos ...

Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth, has been found to have four tiny planets in its orbit in an 'exciting' discovery by astronomers. Each of the four discovered planets are only ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth. The four planets, each only about 20 ...

Could a tiny planet, with weak gravity, harbor life? A team of scientists from Harvard University say they’ve found the smallest possible mass a planet could be before its lack of gravitational forces ...