Planets

Mars orbiter reveals dust avalanche patterns—new study shows what happens on Mars today involves seasonal slope streaks moving quarter of...

Oldest stars are planet killers—new study shows aging stars destroy close-orbiting gas giants through tidal forces, with destruction rates increasing...

The 'anti-weather' of Venus revealed through new modeling—diurnal wind cycles and dust transport differ dramatically between highlands, lowlands, and polar...

Astronomers spot a white dwarf still actively consuming planetary remnants 3 billion years after stellar death, revealing delayed planetary system...

Scientists detected 2 newborn black holes crying through gravitational waves from mergers GW241011 and GW241110, revealing second-generation hierarchical formation. Scientists...

Bizarre three-planet system TOI-2267 hosts Earth-sized planets around both binary stars, challenging planet formation theories in compact stellar configurations. A...

Exoplanets: In a groundbreaking announcement, NASA has confirmed the discovery of over 6,000 exoplanets—planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system....

Rogue Planets. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have made a discovery that challenges our understanding of...

Astronomers have, for the first time, directly observed a forming planet embedded in a spiral arm of a distant star’s...

For the first time, astronomers believe they've caught a planet forming in real time. Around a young star known as...