Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...
TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...
Discovered in archival data, the newly identified exoplanet formed after the dinosaurs went extinct. In a finding that echoes ...
The exoplanet, discovered by Northwestern University astronomers, orbits two suns exactly like Luke Skywalker's fictional ...
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will reach its closest point to Earth on December 19, giving astronomers a closer look at the ...
The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is coming near Earth this week and stargazers can see it before it vanishes into deep space ...
But in this case, the companion is officially considered an exoplanet, not a star. The International Astronomical Union ...
In the latest of his Christmas columns, the FT’s Undercover Economist fields some of your most outlandish proposals, and ...
Fresh simulations show there is a chance Uranus and Neptune might actually be rock-rich worlds wrapped in thinner icy layers.
Professor Brian Cox debunks rumours that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft, explaining why the 7-billion-year-old comet is a 'fascinating' natural phenomenon.
Dubbed HD 143811 AB b, the interstellar entity is a gas giant that’s located some 446 light-years away from Earth in a galaxy ...