An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Jean Schneider of the Paris Observatory predicts that T Coronae Borealis will explode between 2025 and 2027. Potential dates ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

Researchers have identified the human enzyme APEH as a crucial activator of antimalarial prodrugs, paving the way for more ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week ...

But instead of circling their stars at separations comparable to the Jupiter-Sun distance ... to the next is related to the planet’s orbital period, and any deviations from a pure sine wave ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new study.

After identifying an unusual trend in the movement of the hot Jupiter planet TOI-2818b ... with a predicted orbital period less than 16 days. "It’s rare for hot Jupiters to have other planets ...

Diminutive Barnard's Star is closer in size to Jupiter than to the Sun ... The planets form a tightly packed, close-in system, having short orbital periods of between two and seven Earth days (for ...