From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside of our solar system. The planet orbits a star in another solar system about 21-light years away. It cannot be seen ...

Now, astronomers have officially identified more than 6,000 planets outside our solar system. “This milestone represents decades of cosmic exploration driven by NASA space telescopes—exploration that ...

Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...

Despite his concerns, NASA said that 'Comet 3I/ATLAS poses no threat to Earth and will remain far away'. "The closest it will ...

Image shows the young star WISPIT 2 surrounded by rings of dust and gas, with the glowing infant planet WISPIT 2b visible inside a cleared gap in the disk. (Laird Close/University of Arizona) A ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...