Astronomers Identified a Lemon-Shaped Planet Displaying a Feature 'Unlike Anything Observed Before' ...

Science fiction spent decades inventing exotic worlds, and then real space showed up and proved it can do way worse. Telescopes keep spotting planets warped by the gravity of dead stars, worlds with ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing link in planet formation.

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their atmospheres, ...

Our Solar System contains eight planets (sorry, Pluto) orbiting around the Sun. But while all planets are important members of the club, if we’re being honest, we know there’s a crown jewel of our ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...