Learn how a planet-forming disc around a young star reveals multiple planets taking shape at once.

In 2024, researchers reported another far-off world that smells like rotten eggs. HD 189733b, some 64 light-years from Earth, ...

Astronomers have observed two planets forming in the disk around a young star named WISPIT 2. Having previously detected one ...

The decades since scientists confirmed the first planet around another star have been rich in discovery, but it’s rare to see ...

Astronomers have spotted two planets forming around a distant infant star, offering a time capsule into see what the solar ...

Astronomers have spotted two giant planets forming around a young star—offering a stunning glimpse of how our Solar System ...

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...

Journey to Sedna, a distant red dwarf planet with an 11,400-year orbit. Explore its icy surface, enigmatic orbit, and ...

The molten planet, with an atmosphere rich in sulfur-bearing gases, is unlike anything astronomers have ever smelled.

Scientists have identified a potential new type of planet that has a sulphurous atmosphere and magma oceans evocative of ...

Kepler-51d is a giant, ultra-light “super-puff” planet wrapped in an unusually thick haze that’s blocking scientists from ...

Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...