A unique characteristic of the candidate planet HD 137010b is its ice-cold temperature.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system. Unlike the wind we feel .

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

Stargazers across Washington state are in for a treat.

Mercury, Venus, and Saturn put on an early-evening display in the west, while Jupiter dominates the rest of the night.

A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost identical orbital period, and a star astonishingly similar to our sun. It is ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...