Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely ...

Scientists have discovered a giant planet called TOI-6894b, orbiting a star that should be far too small to have formed it.

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our sun. Like many small stars ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our Solar System. Methane indicates unexpected ...

The Milky Way may merge with the Large Magellanic Cloud in 2 billion years, not Andromeda, contrary to previous findings.