Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

In a first, astronomers imaged a baby planet within a gap in the disk of material around a star, confirming predictions about how rings form.

A team of astronomers at the University of Arizona played an integral role in uncovering a baby planet with a pretty cute name: WISPIT 2b.

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular multi-ringed disk. Still glowing and actively accreting gas, the planet ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world.

This new dwarf planet may exist at the edge of the solar system, possibly disproving Planet Nine's existence. This is the story of that newly encountered planet.

Science is driven by our desire to understand things. In some cases, where it requires significant effort and investment to develop systems that can understand new things, science benefits from a ...