Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...

New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

Astronomers may have finally worked out how planets between the size of Earth and Neptune – which aren't found in our Solar ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

Somewhere between the stars, far from any sun, a planet is moving quietly through space. There is no orbit to trace and no ...

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...