What methods can astronomers use to identify exoplanets orbiting within a young exoplanetary system’s disc of dust and gas ...

As travelers continue to look for unique experiences under the night sky, astro-tourism is becoming increasingly popular ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant exoplanet, significantly larger than Jupiter, concealed within the gas and dust disk of ...

The team detected a huge gas giant dwelling in the protoplanetary disk of MP Mus, which had been previously hidden. This represents the first time Gaia has spotted an extrasolar planet or "exoplanet" ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

The SOAR Telescope sits on the peak of Cerro Pachón, part of the Chilean Andes mountain range. Recently, a rare winter storm swept across the Atacama desert, bringing snow to the driest place on Earth ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently spotted a rare cosmic phenomenon known as the "Cosmic Owl". This structure is ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc of gas and dust ...

Stars don't form out of nothing, but tracking the gas and dust that do eventually form stars is hard. They float around the galaxy at almost absolute zero, emitting essentially no light, and generally ...