When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With a new spacecraft bound for Mercury, that tiny planet near the heart of the solar system, ...

Astronomers have captured incredible images of the birth of a distant planet. The planet orbits the star HD 135344B, which is located around 440 light–years from Earth. The stunning snaps show the ...

Explore 25 of Earth's most incredible extremes, from Everest's peak to the Mariana Trench. Discover the planet's hottest, ...

The solar system’s smallest planet has been shrinking at an unexpected rate, researchers announced on Thursday. When NASA’s Mariner 10 probe flew by Mercury in 1974 and 1975, it returned images of ...

At first, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e didn’t look all that impressive: just another large rocky planet circling its star every couple of days. But a recalculation of its orbit has revealed that it’s the ...

A bizarre rogue planet without a star is roaming the Milky Way just 20 light-years from the Sun. And according to a recently published study in The Astrophysical Journal, this strange, nomadic world ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a rather incredible series of images showing the orbit of a planet around a distant star. Captured by the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the ...

It’s not every day you see a newborn planet being formed out of the ether of gas and debris. Actually it’s the first day. And it’s incredible. Above is footage taken by European Southern Observatory ...