A new study explores how eccentric warm Jupiters - giant exoplanets with unusual oval orbits - form, offering clues about the ...
What do you do when you encounter a strange astronomical event, a collection of data from planets thousands of light-years ...
The Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory is thrilled to be your guide to the skies. In this column, I’ll be clarifying some of ...
Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...
The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.
Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...
The discovery of the Kuiper Belt fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the solar system's architecture and population, revealing a far larger and more complex system than previously imagined.
As with many big space stories, 3I/ATLAS is getting a fair share of attention as well as some more controversial theories ...
Normal gases, like the air you breathe on Earth, are made up of atoms bouncing around. Atoms consist of a positively charged bundle of particles called the nucleus and negatively charged particles ...