About 5,800 planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, have been discovered since the 1990s. Of those, only four ...

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...

MIT astronomers estimate a planet 140 light-years from Earth may disintegrate fully within the next 1 to 2 million years.

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

This strange exoplanet, located 140 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, appears to be rapidly falling ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes ...

Learn why the planet, BD+05 4868 Ab, is only the fourth such discovered and will disappear in one to two million years.

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

The newly discovered comet, C/2025 F2 (SWAN), is racing toward the Sun, and it may not survive its closest approach.

Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit twin stars like the fictional “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine.

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have discovered a planet orbiting a pair of stars at a 90-degree angle ...