Seventeen-year-old Wolf Cukier was on his third day on the job as a NASA intern when he discovered a fascinating new planet.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s detection of a possible dwarf planet is just the start of many more discoveries in our cosmic ...

A strange chemical signature in old Hubble observations may point to a planet that formed after its star had already died. Astronomers found unusually high levels of niobium around the white dwarf HS ...

When a star dies, its planets are usually in trouble. But in one distant star system, astronomers suspect something ...

A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a bright disk of cosmic dust. Webb revealed Beta Pictoris d through atmospheric traces of ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory discovered a suspected dwarf planet beyond Neptune. If confirmed, it would be the sixth known dwarf planet in our solar system.

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered evidence of a rare ...

Astronomers have confirmed a world that’s less than a million years old as the youngest known planet, using data from ...