The planetary system TYC 8998–760–1, sitting 300 light years from Earth, shows a pair of massive worlds orbiting a star much like our own Sun. The team of astronomers took a pair of images of ...

The first time image of more than one planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun has been captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT).

Two distant planets orbiting a Sun-like star have been captured by astronomers for the first time. They lie 309 light years from Earth - and shed fresh light on the evolution of the solar system.

They took different photos across time and saw the planets moving, so they could distinguish them from the stars in the background. The two planets, named TYC 8998-760-1b and TYC 8998-760-1c, are ...

The first image of a planet orbiting a Sun-like star has been captured by German scientists. ... Secondly, an array of images of the star taken from 1999 to 2004 by the Very Large Telescope in ...

Astronomers have taken what may the first picture of a planet orbiting around another star similar to the sun. ... (about 330 times the Earth-Sun distance).But for all the planet's strangeness, ...

Astronomers have unveiled what is likely the first picture of a planet around a normal star similar to the Sun. Scientists used the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai'i to take images of ...

Reaching a milestone in the search for Earth-like planets in the universe, two teams of astronomers say they have parted the curtains of space to take the first pictures of planets beyond our ...

The inner planet, a giant weighing 14 times the mass of Jupiter, is 160 times farther from its star than Earth is from the sun. The outer one weighs six times Jupiter’s mass and orbits at twice ...

Two breathtaking discoveries -- the first-ever image of multiple planets orbiting a star other than our own, plus separate research that directly detected a planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut ...

Jupiter is about five astronomical units (sun-Earth distances) from the sun, while Saturn orbits about 10 AU away. Even little dwarf planet Pluto is only about 40 AU away, on average.