Astronomy produces far more data than scientists can immediately analyze. Much of it is ...

General relativity doesn’t just bend light, it can influence planetary orbits enough to wipe out entire systems.

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 discovered a new exoplanet orbiting the nearby K-dwarf star HD 137010 after detecting a single, shallow ...

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.

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

The Discovery A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference: It could be colder than perpetually frozen Mars. Key Facts Scientists ...

Scientists argue that limiting the search for life strictly to a star’s traditional habitable zone is too restrictive. That ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Today’s 3 Brilliant Minutes makes a big deal about a moon orbiting the biggest planet in our solar system. Brad will also show you how to see Jupiter and Europa Wednesday ...

In the 1990s, astronomers confirmed the first planets orbiting stars beyond our sun. Since then, the tally has risen steadily, and last year it crossed a striking milestone: more than 6,000 known ...

A Sun-type star situated nearly 3,000 light-years from Earth has provided astronomers with a unique opportunity to observe an ...