The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

Six hundred and twenty light-years from Earth, a young rogue planet is experiencing an extraordinary growth spurt. Astronomers have spotted a planet named Cha 1107-7626 taking in gas and dust from the ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

There may be a warp in the Kuiper Belt, possibly caused by “Planet Y” — a Mercury-to-Earth-sized world that orbits the sun way beyond the orbit of Neptune. Is there a mysterious “Planet Y” orbiting ...

The find represents the first clear detection of a baby planet taking shape within a disc of dust and gas with multiple rings. The ground-breaking discovery was made using European Southern ...

A team of astronomers has detected for the first time a growing planet inside a ring. The planet, named WISPIT 2b, is outside our Solar System and embedded in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed disc of ...