For the first time in years, astronomers are seriously talking about adding a new member to the solar system’s planetary ...

There’s a rule of thumb that can come in handy when you hear about new planet discoveries from the Kepler space mission. If they’re talking about a handful of new worlds orbiting distant stars, it’s ...

The European Southern Observatory said the discovery as "the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings" A new planet, similar to Jupiter, has been found revolving around a ...

What can young planets teach astronomers about the formation and evolution of planets throughout the cosmos? This is what two studies published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as ...