How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

European Space Agency ESA is getting ready to launch in 2026 a terrestrial planets exploration tool called PLAnetary Transits ...

Is the quest for habitable planets set to be revolutionized by a planet in plain sight a planet that was invisible until today, due to the glare of its host star? The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

Ancient meteorite reveals a protoplanet formed in the outer Solar System earlier than thought, reshaping planet formation ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

Our universe just got a lot weirder. From planets with rings larger than the Sun to alien worlds where it rains molten iron or glows magenta, NASA’s latest exoplanet discoveries are challenging ...

Upgraded ALMA images expose hidden rings and spirals around baby stars, indicating planets begin taking shape mere cosmic ...

Planetary construction sites around other stars are filled with pebbles, and for the first time radio telescopes have detected these tiny chunks of rock that stick together to form planets.

Saturn entered Aries in May of 2025 — and has been hanging out in the early degrees of the sign of the ram ever since. Saturn ...