Working through years’ worth of data from an old observational campaign, a team of astronomers have directly imaged a new ...

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

Scientists found a mysterious rogue planet roaming aimlessly outside our solar system. What if it came closer?

Astronomers have discovered a significant “growth spurt” in a rogue planet outside of our solar system. The free-floating planet is currently consuming gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...

A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of some of the smallest planets yet detected beyond our solar system. The two newly discovered planets represent a new class of extrasolar planets, ...

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet outside our ...

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 dubbed ...