In a cosmic first, scientists say they have detected a planet that may have formed from the burned remains of its dead host star. When a sunlike star dies, it first rapidly expands into a red giant ...

Astronomers have discovered the first example of a second-generation planet orbiting a white dwarf, a world that appears to have formed from the remains of the dead star it now orbits. A team of ...

A dead star’s wreckage may be the birthplace of a new planet. The existence of second-generation planets was predicted theoretically more than 15 years ago. But this “phoenix” world, if confirmed, ...

Suggestions of a ninth planet in our Solar System have been rumbling on for years now. Some astronomers argue that the clustering and orbital tilt of a group of trans-Neptunian objects indicate ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field known outside our solar system. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Radio waves ...