Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...

Astronomers are racing to study 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet whose strange behavior reveals new clues about how other ...

Now, finding a young planet like this is a fairly difficult task, as it requires a long and patient hunt for young disk ...

Importantly, the 6,000 figure is continuously updated as astronomers around the world confirm new planets, meaning no single planet is officially the 6,000th.

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

Some are no bigger than pebbles, while others stretch for miles, silently orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt or zipping ...