Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

Aging stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

The first map of magnetic fields in a planetary formation disk has been created, revealing how invisible forces shape the ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ring system under formation. By comparing the 2023 observations to previous ...

LONDON — The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper's authors have ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

Interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS could serve as seeds for giant planet formation, potentially explaining how massive planets form around distant stars, according to BBC and Pfalzner’s research.

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

A look at the potential effects of a rogue planet entering our solar system, from shifting Earth’s orbit to triggering ...