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

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 ...

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

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

In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

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

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

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 ...

The astronomers discovered the planet when searching through more than 91,000 low-mass red dwarfs observed by NASA's TESS space telescope.Its existence was then confirmed by ground-based ...