Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Eric Collins and his son, Alec Collins, cosplay during Planet Comicon at the Kansas City Convention Center on Friday, March ...

If you’re going to set a sci-fi movie on an alien planet, it’s a nice bonus if that planet actually exists. Or, at least, is ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

Astronomers have examined infant planets orbiting a star 370 light-years away, seeing the exomoon forming disks of gas and dust around them in unprecedented detail.

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Using the Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) instrument, astronomers captured detailed images of young planets orbiting the star PDS 70, revealing compact dust rings that may form moons.

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.