Astronomers have just unveiled an extraordinary discovery in the far reaches of the solar system that could dramatically change the way we view our cosmic neighbourhood. A new dwarf planet, ...

Astronomers say they have discovered a distant planetary system with planets arranged in a surprising order, challenging long-standing ideas about how planets form. In our Solar System, the four ...

An international team has just achieved a world first: creating the thermal map of two rocky Earth-sized planets located in the TRAPPIST-1 system, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The ...