Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...
Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...
NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...
Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
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 ...
Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system ...
This is the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet beyond our solar system with an atmosphere. Astronomers using the James ...
A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...
Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...
The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...