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

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

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

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

Even if life never took hold on Ceres, the discovery could help broaden the range of environments that could potentially be ...

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot. Thanks to NGC 6302’s extreme stellar energy, the ...