The planets orbit a star around 133 light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf ...

Rings of comets have been discovered around 74 alien star systems, revealing not only the existence of trillions of icy exocomets, but also the source of most of the water in these systems. The ...

An extraordinary visitor from beyond our solar system, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, is baffling scientists as it streams out carbon-rich chemical compounds at a rate rarely seen in our own cosmic ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...

I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...