"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

Many scientists refer to Jupiter as the "architect" of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other planets and carved up the cloud from which they all emerged.

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

A team led by Tomas Stolker has discovered a young gas giant exoplanet orbiting a 12-million-year-old star, while its ...

The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.

NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...