Dubbed HD 143811 AB b, the interstellar entity is a gas giant that’s located some 446 light-years away from Earth in a galaxy ...

Jupiter shines brilliantly in the eastern sky this December as it nears opposition early in 2026, outshining nearby stars and ...

Learn how the discovery of a young planet orbiting two suns is revealing how worlds form and survive in binary star systems.

Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...

A star about 1,360 light-years away from Earth, named FU Orionis, is twice as hot as astronomers previously suspected, according to recent data from the Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, scientists ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

A Hidden Tatooine-like world has been found. The discovery sheds new light on how planets form and survive in extreme ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the exoplanet Gaia-4b orbiting its star, tracing the shape of its orbit ...

The closest single star to Earth is home to at least one planet, and it’s a rocky little world not so different from ours. Astronomers spotted a small, rocky planet orbiting the red dwarf known as ...

K. Miller/R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) Astronomers have gotten a sneak peek at what could be Earth’s ultimate fate in about 5 billion years when the sun reaches the end of its life and engulfs the solar ...

Astronomers observed a planet being engulfed by a star for the first time ever. The star, which has been expanding for eons, got so big that it swallowed a close-orbiting gas giant in one big gulp.

The giant world Halla should have been swallowed by its star long ago. Scientists now think they know how the planet cheated death. By Becky Ferreira All across the Milky Way, dying stars are gobbling ...