The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

How do you dust a star for prints? Scientists have the answer to this strange question: by reconstructing the magnetic field ...

A rocky planet less than half the mass of Earth seems to have an atmosphere made almost entirely of sulphur dioxide – this ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on the Universe since its launch.

The protoplanetary disk is actually a Herbig-Haro object dubbed HH 30. Such objects are glowing regions in space that contain ...

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Tazaki et al. The image above may look similar to a combat scene in an Avengers movie, but it's actually a uniquely lit-up view of the dust and gas around a distant ...

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...