Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory ...

July 28 (UPI) --The Hubble Space Telescope observed a young planet that is orbiting so close to its parent star that it is spewing its atmosphere into space, NASA said. The planet orbits the star ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find ...

Astronomers have been scouring the outer solar system for signs of a hypothetical ninth planet for almost a decade, without success. However, we may finally be on the cusp of finding it, experts say.

As the planet orbits, material from its surface is being stripped away and evaporating, creating a huge tail of debris behind it — similar to what happens to comets when they come close to the sun.