Spotted thanks to a fleeting light distortion in 2011, a mysterious duo — a tiny star and its hefty companion — has turned ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent endgame.

It's possible for our solar system to capture a rogue planet and give it a home as it hurtles through the galaxy, according to a new study. In 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS1 observatory were ...

Our galaxy could be littered with warm, watery planets like Earth. That's the conclusion of researchers at Penn State University, who used data from NASA's Kepler telescope to estimate the number ...

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, scientists say. That hope comes after researchers found the first ever ...