As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of other planets out there in the galaxy. But we’re still teasing out clues ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

Telescope scans showed it shining steadily about 11,000 light-years from Earth, near the constellation Puppis. But when Anastasios Tzanidakis was looking through data from 2020, he noticed the star’s ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

Astronomers think they've glimpsed one of the rarest sights in space: two planets smashing into each other around a distant star. "It's incredible that various telescopes caught this impact in real ...