The Cassini probe took its final orbits, referred to as the Grand Finale Orbits (GFOs), in 2017, before launching itself into ...

Some of the planets in our Solar System are gigantic. But what if they got even bigger? Let’s go up the planetary size chart ...

The ice giant classification is oversimplified, as Uranus and Neptune are still poorly understood,” meint Luca Morf des Universitats Zürich. Erörterung des schweizer Wissenschaftler sollte jedoch ...

Astronomers have confirmed a giant planet orbiting a tightly bound pair of young stars, marking a first in direct exoplanet ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

A massive exoplanet orbiting twin stars approximately 500 light-years from Earth has been found by astronomers.HD 143811 b is a gas giant six times ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

On December 6, 2025, a celestial convergence unfolds as Mercury joins forces with Mars, Venus, and the Sun in the powerful ...

Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have created an extraordinary set of images showing debris disks in a wide ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris ...