A strange strip of metal-rich gas in deep space is giving astronomers an unsettling glimpse of how worlds like ours might die ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing link in planet formation.

Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A ...

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

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Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar system ...

Finding new worlds out there is pretty exciting, right? Scientists are getting really good at spotting planets around other ...