What: A newly identified star system, Gaia GIC1, exhibits unusual brightness variations consistent with a large planetary ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has provided groundbreaking insights into the potential of giant, free-floating planets forming their own miniature planetary systems. These objects, ...

The JWST discovers an impossible anomaly on TOI-5205 b and challenges everything we thought we knew about giant planets.

For years, planetary scientists have argued that some of the material that built Earth must have drifted in from beyond ...

The universe is at it again; scientists have been baffled by a discovery that turns all the knowledge they have on planetary ...

It's long been assumed that most or all such grooves are evidence of still-forming protoplanets, but only a few like WISPIT ...

The largest survey of exoplanets using an observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island confirms a long-predicted relationship between planetary mass and rotation — putting a new spin on planet ...

Surprise, it's twins.

A rare planetary system has been discovered that mirrors the structure of our solar system, exoplanet formation, and gas ...

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

The discovery provides a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system as well The discovery provides a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system as well The discovery provides a ...