When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the red dwarf star TOI-6894 (foreground) and its giant planet orbiting ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

The newly discovered exoplanet HD 135344 Ab can be seen as a yellow dot on the right side of the image. It was measured in 2019 (2x), 2021, and 2022. The empty purple circle with the star in the ...

There are thousands of known exoplanets, many of which are too dark to directly see, but scientists have made a 3D map by ...

A massive planet trapped in a death spiral around its star could unlock some of the secrets surrounding star systems. However, the fate of this world is not yet set in stone, with two deaths and one ...

How did this red dwarf star 240 light-years away end up with a gas giant planet? Credit: University of Warwick / Mark Garlick illustration Astronomers have discovered a world outside the solar system ...

A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the astronomy world. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they block their star's light and by the way they make their stars wobble, and ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

Dusty clouds made of sand—that may rain iron—blanket a giant planet orbiting a young, sun-like star just 310 light-years from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed. The discovery was made ...

Like a family in which short parents have tall children, a tiny red dwarf star is defying our understanding of how planets form by existing alongside a giant exoplanet. Giant planets are not rare per ...