According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Interstellar material has been found within our solar system, but ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access the inner planets. Now the results are in, and we can do interesting ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

Worlds gradually clump together over millions of years from the disk of gas and dust swirling around a young star, similar to how planets in our own solar system formed. But recent research ...

Each of the planets, labeled b, c, d, and e, has a mass between 20% and 30% of Earth's, making them among the smallest yet ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals a planet's death plunge into its star, challenging previous theories and shedding light on how giant planets may spiral inward and perish.

17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar ... Barnard's Star, the second-nearest star system to ...