The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of June 19, putting on a spectacular show just six hours after the moon hits its third ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

Interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS could serve as seeds for giant planet formation, potentially explaining how massive planets ...

Artwork depicting the exoplanet TOI-6894b around a red dwarf star. This planet is unusual because, given the size/mass of the planet relative to the very low mass of the star, this planet should not ...

Credit: NASA/GSFC/Frank Reddy Ageing stars look to be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

A recent astronomical discovery has shaken long-held beliefs about how planets form. For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn't form giant planets. That theory just ...

Lick Observatory’s Automated Planet Finder (above) and Shane Telescope (below) were used in the California Legacy Survey to conduct an exoplanet census. (Photos by Laurie Hatch) In the neighborhood ...

Ageing stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and the University of ...

Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than the sun in both size and mass. TOI-6894, located far away from Earth, is one of them. Astronomers previously ...

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