The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit. Credit: Images and ...

Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we’ve discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars.

The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope offers sharper images, efficient light use, and the ability to find Earth-like planets.

China has fired a precision laser across 80,778 miles (130,000 km) of space in broad daylight, bounced it off a satellite circling the Moon, and measured the return, marking the world’s first ...

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An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant exoplanet around an M-dwarf star (GEMS). The ...

Even at the present time, when humanity possesses extremely modern giant ground observatories, as well as advanced space ...

At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

HD 209458 b, nicknamed "Osiris," is one of the first exoplanets seen passing in front of its star, and it's about 159 light-years from Earth. Kepler-186f is the first Earth-sized planet discovered in ...

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...