Just 39 light-years away, the Trappist-1 system hosts seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a dim red dwarf star,three of which lie within the habitable zone. These alien worlds may harbor the ...

The marvelous Eise Eisinga Planetarium, the world’s oldest continuously operating planetarium in the world, dating from 1781, ...

Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii ...

Astronomers have spotted the birth of a new solar system for the very first time ever. Using the ALMA telescope and the James ...

A hidden planet up to 10 times the size of Jupiter was found in the disc around MP Mus, thanks to new data from ALMA and Gaia ...

It's out of this world. Or, more accurately, this solar system.On July 1, astronomers discovered an object near the orbit of Jupiter that was somewhat peculiar. It had a strange orbit, one that didn't ...

A star once thought empty was actually hiding a giant planet. New imaging and Gaia data exposed the surprising discovery of a massive world forming in a swirling disc of gas.

Astronomers just caught a celestial sneak peek at how solar systems are born, and it starts with something delightfully small ...

For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world ...

Even today, this icy, ringed oddball continues to keep scientists guessing. Uranus spins sideways, so each pole gets blasted ...

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