Moons are locked in orbit around planets. Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...

Are there hidden planets in our solar system? New technologies, like the powerful Rubin Observatory, brings us closer to ...

The solar system has nine planets, but in 2006 the International Astronomical Union declared Pluto a dwarf planet, making the ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found an exoplanet unlike any other. This unique world has an atmosphere almost ...

Within GRAVITY’s combined observations, Xuan’s team discovered that Gliese 229 B was not a single object, but a pair of brown ...