In a major yet surprising turn of events, astronomers have recently discovered a newborn planet orbiting around a young ...

A newly discovered baby exoplanet called IRAS 04125+2902 b is challenging our current understanding of planet formation.

He underscored, "Every few years this conjunction will occur as the planets move in their orbits around the Sun. Sometimes ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

The migration of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune from closer to wider orbits around the sun occurred 60-100 million ...

In mid-November 2024, a photograph circulated on social media, allegedly showing three planets perfectly aligned above the ...

Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina, was researching young transiting systems in space when ...

It resides alongside the remnants of the disk of dense gas and dust circling the host star - called a protoplanetary disk - ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on the dark matter which seems to keep galaxies together and rotating with ...

From 520 light-years away, astronomers have caught a glimpse of a nascent massive world still embedded within its star’s protoplanetary disk.