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 ...

An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as ...

Scientists have been searching for radio signals from hypothetical alien civilizations using radio telescopes for decades.

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious object, Companion Candidate 1 (CC1), in the WISPIT 2 system. This intriguing find, ...

Astronomers at the Center for Research in Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC) at the University of A Coruña, ...

First images of light from objects in the Universe are now recorded and split into thousands of colour components4MOST will investigate the formation ...

Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress often comes from data that don’t fit our current understanding. This idea, ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at the European Southern ...