A team of researchers has outlined how a new "direct fusion drive" propulsion system could allow us to reach Sedna this ...

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TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

OF201, the object belongs to the same all-star family as Pluto: dwarf planets. Its diameter, roughly 435 miles (700 km), is ...

Learn how a new discovery of a giant planet can help scientists refine their theories of how planets form.

Researchers in the US have suggested there is a 40 percent chance a ninth planet could exist in our solar system. Planet Nine ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...