The recent discovery of a planet with rings larger than those of Saturn is a game-changer in our understanding of celestial bodies and their properties. This new finding not only expands the horizons ...

An international team of astronomers has shown for the first time that it is possible to map exoplanets using a technique ...

Gas giant Jupiter is so large it could swallow up over 1,300 Earths and still have some room to spare. If you want that in even more numbers, that would be a diameter at the equator of close to 90,000 ...

The star WISPIT 2 was first observed using VLT-SPHERE (Very Large Telescope – Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch), a ground-based telescope in northern Chile operated by the ...

WISPIT 2b was an unexpected discovery made during a five-year research project carried out by an international team of astronomers at Leiden University, the University of Arizona. The find represents ...

Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk encircling a young star. While theorists have thought that planets likely exist in these gaps ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, icy, egg-shaped planet in the far reaches of our solar system, beyond Neptune ...

The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...