The discovery provides new insights into the question, 'how large can a planet be?' An illustration of the HR 8799 system with three of its gas ...
With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...
What if Jupiter’s 79 moons weren’t gravitationally bound to Jupiter? What if they became rogue objects orbiting on their own ...
SIGNS of an alien planet that’s about the same size as Earth have been picked by up a Nasa telescope. Scientists say it might ...
Detection of sulfur in a distant star system gives researchers new insight into planet formation ...
NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.
The transit method involves using an observatory like Kepler to 'stare' at a star and wait for its light to dim as a ...
A cancer treatment has been reformulated into a simple injection after its key components behaved differently in ...
Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...
The universe is full of spectacular sights, from aurora on Earth and Jupiter to the solar flares that cause them, to distant ...
Jupiter, without a doubt, is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large - by ever ...
The breakup was caused by the extreme conditions near the Sun; during its latest approach, C/2025 K1 flew as close as 0.334 ...