This release is available in German. A bull's-eye in the hunt for planets: astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered and directly imaged a faint celestial body that ...

This cool space wallpaper shows an artist conception of ... rocky 'planetesimals' that collide and grow to eventually form planets. The results of this study show that small planets form around ...

This cool space wallpaper of an artist's impression shows the distant dwarf planet Eris. New observations have shown that Eris is smaller than previously thought and almost exactly the same size ...

Another astronomer on the team, Gaël Chauvin, believes the planet may be cool enough to have water vapor and methane gas in its atmosphere, making the planet an important one to observe.