Luke Skywalker would feel right at home on Kepler-16b. This exoplanet is the first known circumbinary planet — a planet that orbits two stars at the same time, just like Tatooine from the Star ...

In recent years, spatially resolved observations of protoplanetary disks have delivered stunning images of radial substructures and azimuthal asymmetries, yielding new insights into the planet-forming ...

Pluto’s four other circumbinary, irregularly-shaped moons are theorized ... In last week’s article, I meant to display each planet’s gravitational force compared to that of the sun as percentage ...

Your research in areas like angular momentum evolution, magnetospheres and circumbinary disks feels like a masterclass ... we are able to piece together the story of planet formation. And now, with ...

On any given night, it's likely that knowledgeable stargazers will be able to spot at least one bright planet shining in the night sky. Because they don't happen every year, such cosmic displays ...

“Every comic creator has their own personal white whale — that singular property they’ve been itching to make their mark on — and for more than a decade Captain Planet has been mine ...

That means the Sun and the "Red Planet" are directly opposite from each other with Earth in the middle. According to NASA, this is around the time when the planet is closest to Earth, making it ...

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“These multi-planet viewing opportunities aren’t super rare, but they don’t happen every year, so it’s worth checking it out.” There are two other planets in the night sky, though ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare treat this month when six planets will "align" in the night sky for an eye-catching planet parade. Planets always appear along a line known as the ecliptic ...

A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...