An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...

Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered approximately 6,100 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.

The universe is always moving. While we've found evidence of rogue black holes and planets, new research suggests that a passing star could be out there somewhere. Unfortunately, If it were to swing ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have found a distant celestial body — ...

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.