Upgraded ALMA images expose hidden rings and spirals around baby stars, indicating planets begin taking shape mere cosmic ...

But an international team of astronomers have detected the unmistakable signature of a gas giant planet orbiting the ...

The event, titled "Out of This World," will feature the Massapequa Philharmonic performing composer Gustav Holst's masterwork ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

When HIP 67522 b was discovered, it was the youngest known planet orbiting its star in under 10 days. Astronomers were using ...

This discovery marks the first known case of a compact planetary system with such a noticeable tilt between close planet ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Scientists have discovered the first clear case of a planet causing its host star to flare, offering new insights into the ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.