The planet's home star, IRAS 04125+2902, sits just over 520 light-years from Earth, making it quite close in galactic terms.

Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...

A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

In recent years, astronomers have developed techniques to measure the metal content of stars with extreme accuracy.

Researchers have discovered TIDYE-1b, a young planet only 3 million years old, rapidly orbiting its star. This finding ...

With the help of a three-dimensional map of stars near the sun, astronomers can search for alien planets that might hold life. The map was created by NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, which has ...

Greetings everyone! You can still see all five visible planets. Jupiter and Mars are in the early morning sky and Mercury, ...

A few thousand years ago it was also our planet’s North Star, until Polaris took its place as Earth’s axis wobbled. (Vega is set to reclaim the North Star crown in 12,000 years). As such ...

Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina, was researching young transiting systems in space when ...

These giant stars send out large amounts of high-energy radiation, which can disrupt relatively fragile disks of dust and gas that are in the process of coalescing to form new planets. A team of ...