Now European Southern Observatory (ESO) thinks one of the objects floating along the main belt might be the smallest ... Dwarf planets in the universe’s remnants When the big bang first happened ...

Astronomers on Monday confirmed they've taken the first picture of a newborn planet. The planet, called PDS 70b, is about 370 light-years from Earth and orbits a young star. Although the distant ...

Now, four small planets have been found orbiting the star. Teams in America and Europe achieved this challenging detection by exploiting precision instruments on the world's largest telescopes.