Scientists have developed a new technique that could help them understand "polka dot" stars using the transits of exoplanets.

Democrats are trying to seize the moment with a flurry of proposals on immigration. Broadly, the proposals move away from ...

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

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) found a previously unknown ...

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

Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

It may sound like science fiction, but imagining a battle between a gas giant and a black hole helps us understand just how ...

The upcoming total lunar eclipse over Asia and the partial solar eclipse over Antarctica occurring in September will be ...

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

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being ...