After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to what the next 30 years might offer. With the number of exoplanets having ...

The baby planet has created a gap in the ring of material as it grows into a fully-realized planet. A baby planet has been spotted nestled inside a ring around its young parent star, offering a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The baby exoplanet WISPIT 2b appears as a small purple dot beside a bright white dust ring ...

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 23, 2025 — University of California, Irvine astronomers have identified an exoplanet located in a star’s habitable zone, where surface conditions might exist that can support the ...

Where does your Windows wallpaper come from? Did you find it online or download it through an app? You should check. A stark new warning for PC users paints an alarming picture. That harmless-looking ...

Detecting exoplanets at all is difficult—they typically emit much less than 1% of a host star's brightness. Eclipse mapping requires measuring small fractions of that total as a planet circles behind ...

With the number of exoplanets having recently passed the 6,000 mark, astronomers are busy preparing for many thousands more in the coming years, with underutilized planet-finding techniques about to ...

A baby planet has been spotted nestled inside a ring around its young parent star, offering a never-before-seen view of planet formation. Using the Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Large Binocular ...

The activities to complete Plato started soon after the spacecraft arrived at ESA's Test Center in the Netherlands. On 9 September, in a dedicated clean room, engineers prepared for the delicate ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...

A mysterious interstellar comet — just the third such object ever confirmed to have entered our solar system — streaked past Mars last week. A spacecraft in orbit around the red planet had a front-row ...

As our solar system’s interstellar visitor hides behind the Sun, humankind’s expeditions to Mars have stepped up to provide an extra set of eyes. On Tuesday, the European Space Agency announced that ...