Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...

The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

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Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods. Would all the ...

Scorching planets that should be bone-dry may actually create their own water deep inside, forging oceans through molten rock and hydrogen.

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building bodies. The structures often resemble our asteroid and Kuiper belts, hinting ...

Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris disks in an extensive range of exoplanetary ...

Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...