SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists couldn't be certain that stars beyond the sun also had planets orbiting them. Since the discovery of the first extra-solar planet, or ...

For decades, Pluto was our solar system's ninth planet. This video explains the scientific journey that led to its ...

Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris disks in an extensive range of exoplanetary ...

Perhaps edging closer to finding planets that harbor life, astronomers have discovered the smallest planet yet identified outside our solar system. Researchers, including a University of Florida ...

The possibility that there might be a large, unknown planet lurking in the outer Solar System far beyond Pluto has long been a staple of science fiction. But for the past decade, astronomers have been ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — If you're trying to get a beautiful look at the planets in our solar system, you're in luck. Between February 25 and February 28, all seven planets in our solar system will be ...

Most astronomers would love to find a planet, but Mike Brown may be the only one proud of having killed one. Thanks to his research, Pluto, the solar system’s ninth planet, was removed from the ...

NASA has unveiled a new way for the public to follow interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it moves through the solar system, integrating the object into its interactive Eyes on the Solar System app. The ...

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