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

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

An international team including University of Galway astronomers has discovered WISPIT 2b—a newly forming gas giant embedded ...

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

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

An international team of astronomers has made a landmark discovery by capturing an image of a giant planet forming within a ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Galway, has hailed the "remarkable ...

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

At first glance, the Butterfly Nebula looks like a glowing insect pinned against the backdrop of space. Officially known as ...

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the ...

The unexpected detection of a new planet has been hailed as a “remarkable discovery” by Irish astronomers who were involved ...