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A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...
The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, ...
Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.
Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...
The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...
Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...
What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...
The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...
A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
EXCLUSIVE: Scientists say the discovery of a Jupiter-like planet promises to further understanding of planetary systems.
A team led by Tomas Stolker has discovered a young gas giant exoplanet orbiting a 12-million-year-old star, while its ...