Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

Astronomers have recently detected a rogue planet entering our solar system, marking a rare event that has sparked ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

NASA is tracking a mysterious, fast-moving object entering our solar system, raising questions about whether it's just a ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular ...

Scientists theorised about the possibility of Planet Y after spotting a strange ‘warp’ in the Kuiper belt, which is a ring of ...

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

Since its fiery birth nearly 4.5 billion years ago, Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, has been slowly ...