"This was an absolute surprise. It's extremely different from what we expected." ...

But it's probably burbling lava.

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

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

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

Perhaps it's time to rebrand.

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...

Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet.

Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system, ...