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

A Jupiter-like planet has been found orbiting a young sun-like star in a solar system far away in what is a potentially groundbreaking discovery. The planet, named WISPIT 2b, is believed to be a 5 ...

But until now, only one other system, discovered in 2018, had ever actually been observed with two planets inside a large inner gap. The new discovery, though, marks a major milestone: The growing ...

In our own solar system, Mercury, Venus and Earth will be destroyed when the Sun eventually becomes a red giant before transitioning into a white dwarf. For a planet to survive this process, it would ...

The Very Large Telescope view on the left shows the rings in the protoplanetary disk and the planet in yellow. Views from the Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life ...