Astronomers have detected a faint but persistent point of light near Alpha Centauri A, the closest star that closely ...

ALMA observations of the spiral patterns in the disk around the young star IM Lup. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the motion of spirals of dust around a young ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

What is Planet Nine, and where is it? The question has fascinated astronomers for years. Scientists believe a massive ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the Solar System? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labelled as planet X, prominent astronomers ...