Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...
Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.
Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...
A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...
Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...
"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark they are." NASA scientists have devised a new way to use planets that cross, ...
Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...
Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...
The new spectrograph on Chile's SOAR telescope captures Eta Carinae with unprecedented precision, revealing the secrets of ...
NASA scientists have devised a new way to use planets that cross, or "transit," the face of their parent stars to investigate stellar "spottiness." The new technique, called the "StarryStarryProcess," ...