NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...

Pluribus imagines Kepler-22b as an ocean world that sends a gift to humanity through radio waves. In real life, no such ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

The exoplanet, dubbed PSR J2322-2650 b, has a helium-and-carbon atmosphere, something researchers say they've never seen ...

Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

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By tracking tiny stellar wobbles, astronomers have detected planets forming around young stars for the first time.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, known for its massive size, strong gravity, powerful storms and many moons ...

The Space Engineers 2 alpha is coming along nicely as fans of the first game ready themselves for the full-blown sequel. This update, Planets & Survival Foundations, introduces fully explorable ...