When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Red dwarfs are the most common stars in our galaxy, and understanding how planets form around them is therefore essential.

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows that the region surrounding our solar system is far from empty. Instead, it ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...