There might be a ninth planet lurking at the edges of our solar system. That may seem pretty out-there. Well, new evidence suggests that many of the solar system’s quirks could be explained without ...

Andrew Mann from the University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have discovered a planet in a nearby star cluster which could help astronomers better understand how planets form and evolve. The ...

Scientists using a powerful telescope in Chile have found an alien planet circling a star that is nearly identical to the sun and located in a star cluster 2,500 light-years from Earth. The discovery ...

Astronomers discovered a planet orbiting a red dwarf star in the nearby Hyades open star cluster. A. Mann/McDonald Obs./DSS A newly discovered planet in a star cluster far, far away is giving ...

A planet about a third the mass of Jupiter circles a sunlike star in about five days. The discovery may not seem much different from the other 1,000 or so exoplanets identified to date. But the new ...

According to the results of a new study, stars orbiting near the centers of massive clusters have a much harder time forming planets than those located at the edge. The discovery was made possible by ...

Studies of near-Earth space will never be the same again, following the successful commissioning of the European Space Agency’s Cluster mission. For the first time in the history of space exploration, ...

NASA astronomers released stunning pictures of the newly discovered planet cluster TRAPPIST-1 Wednesday afternoon, providing a wondrous relief from Earthly news. The space agency published several ...

Scientists using a powerful telescope in Chile have found an alien planet circling a star that is nearly identical to the sun and located in a star cluster 2,500 light-years from Earth. The discovery ...