Here, Earth is snapped from outer space on background of stars creating a magical effect. Tilted at 23.4 degrees, our blue ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds ...

Artist's impression of Planet Nine – a suspected “wide-orbit” planet – with the Sun in the distance; Neptune's orbit is shown ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

New research says that Earth could be ejected from our solar system if a passing star was to come close enough.

Results showed that hydrogen or other light gases did initially escape into outer space. But for planets farther away from the star, where the temperature is more moderate, hydrogen also reacted ...

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.

Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of ...

The planet would have blasted gas away from the outer layers of the star. The Near-Infrared Spectrograph revealed a hot disk of molecular gas surrounding the star, where carbon monoxide was detected.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of what is thought to be the first ever recorded planetary engulfment event revealed a hot accretion disk surrounding the star, with an ...