Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Astronomers have spent the past decade cataloguing thousands of planets beyond the solar system, many of them falling into a ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway exoplanets ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

It may be made from a former star ...

Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions ...

A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...

For over two centuries, we have watched the red giant R Leonis dim and brighten with regularity, but this 'heartbeat' is ...