The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.

Now, finding a young planet like this is a fairly difficult task, as it requires a long and patient hunt for young disk ...

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

A new study challenges the dream of water-rich “Hycean” planets like K2-18b, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their water deep into their interiors during formation. Instead of vast oceans, ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at ...