Astronomers spotted a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming within a dusty ring around its star system, offering clues about the ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant five times more massive than Jupiter, is the first planet of its kind to be observed growing inside ...

The newly discovered exoplanet HD 135344 Ab can be seen as a yellow dot on the right side of the image. It was measured in 2019 (2x), 2021, and 2022. The empty purple circle with the star in the ...

The celestial body is the youngest transiting planet found to date. Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was researching young transiting systems in space ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star.

Astronomers detected a bright signal, coming from deep inside a dust disc, that is likely newborn planet HD 135344B still gathering mass.

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

Alpha Centauri, also known as Alpha Centauri A, is a three-star system. The brightest star, Alpha Centauri A, is quite similar to the Sun. According to an article published on the website of the ...

WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - though they concluded that all of them ...

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

Orbs with twin suns, a star twice as old as our sun... see how new discoveries, with surprising similarities to fiction, are ...