Meghan Trainor has another adorable reason to blast “Mom.” On Jan. 18, she and husband Daryl Sabara welcomed their third ...

Jupiter reaches opposition, making it brighter and larger than at any other time this year. A rare transit of its moon Callisto adds to the event, visible with binoculars or a small telescope.

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune orbit most stars. Oddly, our sun lacks such a planet. That's been a source ...

This artistic impression shows the collision of two planetesimals in the young, evolving planetary system of Fomalhaut. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the dramatic aftermath of two violent ...

The baby planet has created a gap in the ring of material as it grows into a fully-realized planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Austin (KXAN) — A tiny baby planet is making waves in the science community. Named WISPIT 2b, the growing planet is the first planet of its kind to be basically photographed growing inside its star’s ...

Gas giant Jupiter is so large it could swallow up over 1,300 Earths and still have some room to spare. If you want that in even more numbers, that would be a diameter at the equator of close to 90,000 ...

Astronomers have spotted telltale signs of a new planet actively growing out of the fog of gas and dust that surrounds it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

WISPIT 2b was an unexpected discovery made during a five-year research project carried out by an international team of astronomers at Leiden University, the University of Arizona. The find represents ...

The find represents the first clear detection of a baby planet taking shape within a disc of dust and gas with multiple rings. The ground-breaking discovery was made using European Southern ...