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 ...

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

Learn about the collisions between space rocks that have created huge dust clouds, one of which was previously mistaken for ...

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

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 ...

In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space ...

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

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system ...

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

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...