The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

A pattern in the movements of a brown dwarf that orbits a Sun-like star is likely to be caused by a moon. If confirmed, this would be the first exomoon, that is a moon orbiting a planet that in turn ...

When the Hubble Space Telescope set its sights toward the binary star system HD 106906, astronomers found a world that could resemble the long-sought Planet X. For the first time, astronomers are able ...

Have scientists finally confirmed the existence of the first exomoon? This is what a study released on the preprint server ...

With the breathtaking progress made in star and planet formation research aiming at far-away celestial objects, we can now investigate the conditions in environments around young stars and compare ...

Check out the architecture of our solar system. Little planets close to the star, big planets far away. Inner worlds rocky, outer ones gaseous. Scientists once supposed other star systems in the Milky ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

How can we explore the outer reaches of other solar systems? The answer lies in debris belts, disks composed of dust and debris, which orbit a star. Solar systems with debris disks can span the early ...

Hence, finding a planet that orbits really, really far from its parent star is a rare occurrence — so rare, in fact, that it’s hard to do even in our own solar system. Indeed, there is much evidence ...

NASA leverages the Hubble Space Telescope for all manner of scientific endeavors. Recently Hubble was used to pin down the orbit of a massive exoplanet called HD 106906 b that is 11 times the mass of ...