Here, Earth is snapped from outer space on background of stars creating a magical effect. Tilted at 23.4 degrees, our blue ...

But an international team of astronomers have detected the unmistakable signature of a gas giant planet orbiting the ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the distance ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

Artist's impression of Planet Nine – a suspected “wide-orbit” planet – with the Sun in the distance; Neptune's orbit is shown ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Results showed that hydrogen or other light gases did initially escape into outer space. But for planets farther away from the star, where the temperature is more moderate, hydrogen also reacted ...

What can a star’s behavior teach scientists about the formation and evolution of sub-Neptune exoplanets, which comprise one of the most discovered exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in ...

When the Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and expands into a red giant, it will eventually encompass the innermost planets of the solar system, out to about Earth’s orbit. Being closer to our ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s observations of what is thought to be the first ever recorded planetary engulfment event revealed a hot accretion disk surrounding the star, with an ...

Astronomer breaks down "strongest evidence yet" of life on distant planet 04:06. Astronomers announced Wednesday they have discovered a massive planet orbiting a tiny star, a bizarre pairing that ...