Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

A young planet has been spotted outside our Solar System, captured by the Very Large Telescope in Chile. The rare image shows ...

Astronomers are amazed to have discovered a baby exoplanet gobbling up matter around an infant star like a planetary Pac-Man.

The planet is a gas giant about the size of Jupiter. At just 5 million years old, it is still considered an infant compared with our 4.6-billion-year-old solar system.

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

Amazing Discovery: Astronomers Discover Baby Planet for the First Time in a Multi-Ringed Protoplanetary Disk ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope at Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is seen from directly above while its construction continues.

Called 3I/ATLAS, the comet is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for billions of years, carrying pristine material from another star system ...

Using a cutting-edge adaptive optics system developed at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, a growing planet ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Arizona played an integral role in uncovering a baby planet with a pretty cute name: WISPIT 2b.

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile is one of the most powerful observatories on Earth. Here are five of its most ...