Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

High-resolution spectroscopic observations have offered a deeper understanding of HD 206893 B, a brown dwarf orbiting the star HD 206893. The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC) was used by ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post A Mysterious Object Visited Our Solar System And Altered The Orbits Of Four ...

It is also the only moon in our solar system that has a significant atmosphere. For the SwRI and Carnegie experiments, the scientists set out to better understand how Titan maintains its thick ...

The Priority Mail 'Spiral Galaxy' and Priority Mail Express 'Star Cluster' stamps are now available in panes of four at post offices nationwide.

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