A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Staring up at the night sky, you might see thousands of stars sprinkled above the horizon. It feels as though you can see so ...

The VLT's incredible sensitivity has allowed groundbreaking discoveries like the first direct image of an exoplanet and the unveiling of the cosmic web structure. However, it would lose this ...

A new study is offering a clearer picture of how planets are born alongside stars, with the lead researcher from British ...

Earth along with some other planets in our solar system have jet streams too. They're like rivers of high-speed atmospheric air, and have major implications for our Earthly weather as they separate ...

Exoplanets, which are planets beyond our solar ... "This is something we haven’t seen before." But even without a direct image, astronomers can learn a lot about a world like WASP-127b based ...

An international collaboration including U-M researchers have used JWST to provide an unprecedented window into the formation of planets around young ...

The Las Cumbres Observatory captured this image of the two stars ... "We report the discovery of BD+054868Ab, a transiting exoplanet orbiting a bright K-dwarf with a period of 1.27 days," the authors ...

Jan. 17, 2025 — Astrophysicists have imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles within them. The crystal-clear images show ... Jan. 16, 2025 — A research ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.