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.

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct the Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey, observing hundreds of millions of stars and exoplanets in the Milky Way’s center.

Planets that once lived only in pulp novels and movie concept art are now turning up in real data. Astronomers are not just ...

Daniel Apai is a professor of astronomy, planetary sciences and optical science at the University of Arizona. He receives funding from NASA. Exoplanets are worlds that orbit other stars. They are very ...

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In context: NASA estimates that a single galaxy may harbor trillions of rogue planets. These starless worlds drift alone through interstellar space and have no parent star. They remain challenging to ...

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Explore the beauty and mystery of real planets in the universe. This video features footage from Storyblocks and NASA, showcasing various exoplanets and their fascinating characteristics. Gear used: - ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s ...

Exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b, orbiting a pulsar, possesses an unprecedented helium-and-carbon-dominated atmosphere, characterized by molecular carbon (C3 and C2) and soot clouds, a composition unlike any ...