Barnard’s Star hosts four hostile small planets whose unusual chemistry and orbital rhythm reveal how compact planetary systems can form and survive.

A violent collision in the main asteroid belt may have sent debris raining across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

Astronomers discover Beta Pictoris d, a faint gas giant exoplanet, expanding insights into planet formation in multi-planet ...

Astronomers directly imaged a Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf 72 light-years away, making it the strongest candidate yet for the first known exomoon.

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Reflect Orbital has won initial approval for a plan to put thousands of mirrors in orbit that would be visible from anywhere ...

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

Jupiter goes around its star in 180 days, which is a long time compared with most exoplanets we've discovered.

A shattered asteroid may have unleashed a long-lasting cosmic barrage that left scars across the inner solar system and ...

For 25 years, one of the Milky Way’s strangest stellar explosions hid its culprit behind its own debris. Now the dust has ...

After more than ten years of playing hide-and-seek, researchers have discovered one of the lightest planets ever directly ...