The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen ...

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

What can a rocky molten exoplanet with an atmosphere teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what ...

Many planets featured in Star Trek TNG share traits that scientists now look for when identifying exoplanets: rocky terrain, ...

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

Lurking further from its stars than Neptune is from the Sun, this is no inner planet, but it’s on a scale we recognize, ...