Learn how the discovery of a young planet orbiting two suns is revealing how worlds form and survive in binary star systems.

That’s why scientists designed an instrument called coronagraph in the early 1930s. Coronagraph, as NASA describes, is ...

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

An international team, including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' on the fictional twin suns of Star Wars hero Luke Skywalker's home planet ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

The existence of the planet, named AT2021uey b, took years to verify. Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a low ...

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) directly imaged exoplanet TWA 7 b for the first time. A special coronagraph blocked the star's light, allowing the exoplanet to be seen. TWA 7 b is surprisingly ...

What is the official process of planetary formation and evolution and is this process uniform for all planetary bodies throughout the universe? This is what a recent study published in The ...

March 20, 2024, Mountain View, CA -- In a project aimed at democratizing science and fostering educational enrichment, a group of high school students from the Galaxy Explorer program at the Chabot ...