Astronomers have spotted two planets forming around a distant infant star, offering a time capsule into see what the solar ...

Surprise, it's twins.

The WISPIT 2 system is the second known planetary system, following PDS 70, where exoplanets have been observed forming ...

Astronomers have observed two planets forming in the disk around a young star named WISPIT 2. Having previously detected one ...

Astronomers have directly observed two massive planets forming around the young star WISPIT 2, located 437 light-years away.

The scene around WISPIT 2 is messy in a way that matters. Rings of dust circle the young star, gaps cut through the disc, and ...

TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool dwarf with seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. (Photo digital Illustration by NASA/NASA via Getty Images) Scientists have just completed an extensive search for signs of ...

This cosmic visitor is now officially named 3I/ATLAS, and it appears to be a comet from another solar system. Reading time 3 minutes Update: July 3, 09:24 a.m. ET: On Wednesday, July 2, the ...

Our solar system's famous "invader" might be as old as the Milky Way itself. An X1.4 solar flare triggered radio blackouts and launched a fast CME as NASA prepares for its Artemis 2 moon mission. New ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS. A remarkable ...