Scientists from Queen's University Belfast have led an international team in the discovery of a rare new planet, which is ...

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

A giant planet circling a dead star should not be there. That was the puzzle hanging over WD 1856 b ever since astronomers ...

Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should ...

A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate of ...

The planet should not have survived the star's red giant phase—which sees a star balloon to more than 100 times its original ...

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system, and it is thanks to ...

A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that ...

A best-yet measurement of one of general relativity’s most mind-boggling effects is “another feather in Einstein’s cap” ...

Researchers have discovered a planet which, by all intents and purposes, should not be there. The world, coined WD 1856 b, is slightly larger than Jupiter and circles a dead star only about the size ...

The probe will conduct a detailed scientific survey of the asteroid and send a sample back to Earth for further analysis.

Earth receives about 7 percent less light during aphelion than during its closest approach to our star, yet the average ...