Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists couldn't be certain that stars beyond the sun also had planets orbiting them. Since the discovery of the first extra-solar planet, or ...

The exoplanet, discovered by Northwestern University astronomers, orbits two suns exactly like Luke Skywalker's fictional ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

The existence of "Planet Nine," a hypothetical planet in the outer solar system, is supported by indirect evidence such as the unusual clustering of orbits of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) ...

Most astronomers would love to find a planet, but Mike Brown may be the only one proud of having killed one. Thanks to his research, Pluto, the solar system’s ninth planet, was removed from the ...

Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a star called Alpha Centauri A, which is famous for being the nearest star that resembles our own Sun. In the popular Avatar movies, this star's system is home to ...

The Solar System. It's no longer about the eight main planets anymore. Sorry Pluto. A new planet has entered the fray.

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