Our galaxy is full of strange worlds, but what would happen if we could bring some of them into our own Solar System? Moving ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field ...

Space is full of electromagnetic radiation like radio signals, but those signals are usually coming from stars or black holes ...

Planets orbiting stars beyond the solar system come in all shapes and sizes but mostly fit into a few categories: large and hot gas giants, super-Earths that are slightly larger than our planet, ...

Astronomers in a recent breakthrough have identified a first-of-its-kind planet characterised with a unique hellscape and atmosphere. The planet is found to be orbiting a star in our neighbourhood of ...

FOR the first time, astronomers have seen the glow of alien planets circling sun-like stars. “This is a new era,” says the leader of one of the teams, Drake Deming from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...

On Earth, a cloudy morning giving way to a clear evening is unremarkable, the kind of forecast that barely warrants a glance at the weather app. On a gas giant orbiting a star nearly 700 light-years ...

For the first time, astronomers have seen the glow of alien planets circling sun-like stars. “This is a new era,” says the leader of one of the teams, Drake Deming from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...

The newly discovered exoplanets, designated as GJ 9827 b, c and d, are located fairly close to their host star, completing orbits within 6.2 days. ESO A nearby 'super‑Earth' just 25 light years from ...