Venus, Jupiter and Mercury headline a spectacular month of planetary viewing.

How do you weigh a planet you can't see? Astronomers may have the answer and it involves "reading between the rings," the ...

A young red dwarf can look calm from a distance. But buried in its light may be the chemical remains of a wrecked world.

Somewhere between 50 and 200 million years ago, in three stellar nurseries not far from our corner of the Milky Way, at least ...

Astronomers have found some of the strongest evidence yet that stars can swallow their own planets. A new study, published in ...

Some planets orbit so close to their stars that a single “year” lasts less than a day on Earth. A few of those worlds just ...

Two pairs of ‘rogue’ Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new ...

Our sun is a loner. It lacks a stellar companion hurtling through interstellar space with it. But we've known for a long time ...

Space is full of mysteries that can't be easily explained by the layman, and this latest one from a isn't likely to sour anyone on their fascination with space. Scientists from several institutions, ...

A bright ring of dust circling a young star can look calm from far away. In reality, it may mark one of the messiest moments ...

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