NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

Luke Skywalker famously said if there was a bright center of the universe, Tatooine was the planet it was farthest from. That didn't stop it from becoming the most famous planet in a galaxy far, far ...

When it comes to extrasolar planets, appearances can be deceiving. Astronomers have imaged a new planet, and it appears nearly identical to one of the best studied gas-giant planets. But this ...

In ancient times, there were only five major planets, not including Earth. The classical planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which were observed by many civilizations around the ...

For a thousand generations, the Republic and the Jedi Knights kept the peace in the galaxy, governing from the planet Coruscant. Since 1991, Star Wars fans have thought of Coruscant as a pivotal ...

A recent and famous image from deep space marks the first time we've seen a forming planetary system, according to a study by U of T astrophysicists. The team, led by Daniel Tamayo from the Centre for ...

In ancient times, there were only five major planets, not including Earth. The classical planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which were observed by many civilizations around the ...

The Solar System does not have a clear border. The influence of the Sun in certain domains is small enough for the Voyager probes to have escaped into interstellar space, but there are comets and ...

The infrared spectra of 2MASS 0249 c (top) and beta Pictoris b (bottom) are similar, as expected for two objects of comparable mass that formed in the same stellar nursery. Unlike 2MASS 0249 c, beta ...