An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Grab your telescope and join us on a sightseeing tour, before the moon returns to spoil the fun!

The planets are visible throughout February, "but they’ll be lined up best toward the end of the month,” NASA says.

"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

This discovery is out of this world. For the first time since its operations began in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a direct image, published by the journal Nature, of a new ...

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

Mark your calendars for the last week of February, because one of the coolest celestial events is coming up where six planets will be visible in the night sky at the same time. This phenomenon, known ...

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...