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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest ...

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 ...

"The planet gets in the way from the point of view of any one spacecraft, so we had to spread them around the planet to look ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a possible gas giant the size of Saturn in the stellar system nearest our own ...