Star Wars fans will be well aware of Tatooine, the desolate, distant world inhabited by human settlers. In the films Tatooine ...

Jupiter shines brilliantly in the eastern sky this December as it nears opposition early in 2026, outshining nearby stars and ...

Dubbed HD 143811 AB b, the interstellar entity is a gas giant that’s located some 446 light-years away from Earth in a galaxy ...

A rare image reveals a giant planet clinging to two stars, helping scientists understand how planets survive in chaotic star ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre carbon-rich planet orbiting a neutron star, PSR J2322-2650b, with soot clouds and ...

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 ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's impression of the exoplanet Gaia-4b orbiting its star, tracing the shape of its orbit ...

The closest single star to Earth is home to at least one planet, and it’s a rocky little world not so different from ours. Astronomers spotted a small, rocky planet orbiting the red dwarf known as ...

Astronomers observed a planet being engulfed by a star for the first time ever. The star, which has been expanding for eons, got so big that it swallowed a close-orbiting gas giant in one big gulp.

K. Miller/R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) Astronomers have gotten a sneak peek at what could be Earth’s ultimate fate in about 5 billion years when the sun reaches the end of its life and engulfs the solar ...

The giant world Halla should have been swallowed by its star long ago. Scientists now think they know how the planet cheated death. By Becky Ferreira All across the Milky Way, dying stars are gobbling ...