“It’s a chemical signature no ordinary, ‘first-generation’ planet should carry, which told us that this new planet was ...

A team of scientists found evidence of a planet born from a white dwarf in decades-old Hubble data.

A dead star’s wreckage may be the birthplace of a new planet. The existence of second-generation planets was predicted ...

Astronomers have discovered that a scorching-hot planet 320 light-years away shares a striking chemical similarity with its ...

A white dwarf’s unusual chemistry points to a giant planet containing material shed during the star’s death. If confirmed, the system would provide the first evidence of a second-generation planet ...

Our sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its diameter expands more than a hundredfold, engulfing any unlucky planets in ...

Star Trek: The next generation (of planets).

29 Cygni b is a massive object weighing around 15 times as much as Jupiter and with 150 times the heavy elements of Earth. So, is it a planet or a star? Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope ...

ALMA, a 66‑antenna radio observatory in northern Chile, is boosting its star‑ and planet‑formation studies with new receivers for interstellar gas.

Scientists detected the very first exoplanets around a pulsar — a type of rapidly rotating dead star — and because pulsars ...

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 potential Tatooine -like planet from Star Wars of Earth’s size in a nearby binary star system can hold liquid water and ...