Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...
Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.
Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...
A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...
These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...
A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...
New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.