When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t expecting to find one of the universe’s strangest chemical ...

Also known as "failed stars," brown dwarfs are celestial bodies that sit on the boundary between gas giant planets and tiny stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine.

We report the discovery of OGLE-2016-BLG-1190Lb, which is likely to be the first Spitzer microlensing planet in the Galactic bulge/bar, an assignation that can be confirmed by two epochs of ...