A G-shaped star pattern becomes visible after dark on February 9, 2026, formed from well-known winter stars observable in the Northern Hemisphere.

The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red ...

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head.

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...

Jupiter continues shining brightly in the east in the evening among the stars of Gemini. To the right of Gemini is Orion with orange-red Betelgeuse and blue-white Rigel at diagonally ...

At the center of the Egg Nebula is its yolk: a deteriorating sun-like star.

Hubble observations reveal a giant, turbulent planet-forming disk that may reshape theories of how planetary systems develop.