What a surprise to discover a planet that instantly evokes the Star Wars universe! Instead of a single sun, it orbits two ...

Nothing about this planet makes sense. And that’s both confounding and exciting for astronomers. In A Nutshell Astronomers ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars. The discoveries are the first results from OASIS (Observing Accelerators ...

A Neptune-sized planet closely orbiting its host star has just been discovered, making it only the fourth object of its kind ever identified. Scientists detected the planet, designated TOI-3261 b, ...

A Hidden Tatooine-like world has been found. The discovery sheds new light on how planets form and survive in extreme ...

Astronomers announced Wednesday they have discovered a massive planet orbiting a tiny star, a bizarre pairing that has stumped scientists. Most of the stars across the Milky Way are small red dwarfs ...

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 ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Galway, has hailed the "remarkable discovery" of a newly detected planet, WISPIT 2b. Estimated to be just five ...

— -- Astronomers on Monday reported the discovery of an Earth-like planet outside the solar system whose size and distance from its own star put it in the "habitable" zone and make for a surface ...

The European Southern Observatory said the discovery as "the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She ...

Astronomers have discovered an extrasolar planet with the largest core of any known planet. The discovery is especially exciting to planet formation theorists, because it provides extremely strong ...