If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This artist's rendering shows what giant planet TOI-6894b might look like orbiting its red dwarf ...

Astronomers announced Wednesday they have discovered a massive planet orbiting a tiny star, a bizarre pairing that has stumped scientists. Most of the stars across the Milky Way are small red dwarfs ...

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

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 ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the distance ...

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" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She ...

Lick Observatory’s Automated Planet Finder (above) and Shane Telescope (below) were used in the California Legacy Survey to conduct an exoplanet census. (Photos by Laurie Hatch) In the neighborhood ...