A giant planet is orbiting the remnants of an exploded star – called a white dwarf – 1200 light years away from Earth. The discovery is the first time an entire planet has been found orbiting a white ...

How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronomers identify celestial objects in the night sky? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as an international team ...

For years now, there have been claims from the astronomical fringes that our solar system’s Main Asteroid Belt contains the destroyed, or even “exploded,” remains of one or more full-scale planets.