In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

According to the study conducted using Korean Microlensing data in which light from faraway objects is amplified through the ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Robert Lee Hotz covered new research and its impact on society for The Wall Street Journal.

"This measurement of the planet population from planets somewhat larger than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and ...

Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

Just as Luke Skywalker watched two suns set from his sandy home planet Tatooine, a newly discovered planet called 2M1510 is ...