Scientists studying the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua have proposed that it may be a fragment from a Pluto-like planet beyond ...

An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...

Journey beyond the asteroid belt to explore the solar system's majestic giants and mysterious outer reaches. We break down ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

I recall as a child lying on the grass at night, gazing up at the stars, and wondering if any of those distant suns had planets orbiting nearby. I was not the first to do so, of course. The question ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

LONDON — The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper's authors have ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...