Our Solar System contains eight planets (sorry, Pluto) orbiting around the Sun. But while all planets are important members of the club, if we’re being honest, we know there’s a crown jewel of our ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon one of the strangest planets ever discovered outside our solar system. The world, called PSR J2322-2650 b, defies everything scientists thought they knew about how ...

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Astronomers have found a planetary system that seems to have formed inside-out. While most systems, like our own, have rocky planets closest to their star and gaseous ones further out, the LHS 1903 ...

Astronomers have found what appears to be one of the strangest known worlds in the universe. It orbits a type of rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar – this in itself is unusual, but it is ...

A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Astronomers have captured some of the most detailed images of debris discs—rings of leftover dust, gas, and rocks that circle a star—from fully formed, "teenage" planetary systems. And those images, ...