A small international team of astronomers has confirmed that a binary star system with an odd signal has a companion—a planet ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant exoplanet around an M-dwarf star (GEMS). The ...

The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...

A s the most massive planet in the Solar System, and first to form, Jupiter’s gravity shaped the formation of everything else ...

It happened 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was full of orbiting space rocks. This debris clumped up in a ...

China to launch Tianwen-2 asteroid sampling mission on May 28 China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled for launch within the next two weeks from the Xichang ...

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...