The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

As winter approaches, memories of the past haunt South Africans in more ways than one. The country has experienced years of ...

A recent study has revealed the presence of a previously unknown companion planet orbiting the star Komondor (HAT-P-12) by ...

This exoplanet, which is roughly six times the mass of Jupiter (making it a "super-Jupiter"), was the first transiting planet known to orbit a white dwarf (WD) star. In a recent paper, an ...

The second image (below) shows a slightly smaller white patch on Mauna Kea, a 13,796-foot-tall (4,205 m) peak located around 25 miles (40 kilometers) further north. Both images were taken on the ...

If it turns out to be a planet instead of a star — Jupiter and ... a big matriarch Joshua tree stabs the pewter haze with shocking black daggers. Shivering, not moving, we both hold onto pockets ...

In this illustration, WD 1856 b, a potential Jupiter-size planet, orbits its much smaller host star, a dim white dwarf. Credits: NASA GSFC. In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant ...

Let it open us to the future we long for but do not yet envision. We live on one vulnerable, extraordinary planet. We are not its overlords; we are part of an evolving circle of life, which we are ...

Donor funding helped the Zimbabwean government buy land from white commercial farmers, enabling about 50,000 Black farmers to receive land. But the programme was ultimately underfunded and fell ...