The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

Most planets are part of a star system of their own – but some go their own way, and they have remained largely mysterious ...

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...