Surprise, it's twins.

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

As the number of exoplanet detections has breached 6,000 and continues to grow, scientists are finding a wide variety of ...

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 ...

Typically astronomers find planets of similar ages to the ones in our solar system, but that’s starting to change. In a study ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar system.

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in space that appears to guide matter and radiation along a kind of interstellar highway stretching from our solar neighborhood to distant stars.

According to NASA, an exoplanet is a planet beyond our solar system, with most of them orbiting other stars. Some are ...

Our solar system passed through a vast wave of gas and dust around 14 million years ago, dimming Earth’s view of the night sky. The wave may even have left traces in our planet’s geological record.

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close by. Nearly 4.4 million years ago, they swept past at a distance of only ...

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...