The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

A “natural history” approach to space exploration would take into account instead developments in the fields of physics, ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

This composite image was weeks in the making, as Horálek’s two "crossings" happened months apart. Mars traced its path ...

Across the Milky Way, planets slightly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune appear around most stars. Yet our own solar ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Most planets are part of a star system of their own – but some go their own way, and they have remained largely mysterious ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...