As darkness falls, Jupiter, nearing its biggest and brightest for 2024 rises north of due east and remains on display ...

"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of stars over time. During the ...

Ultra-short period planets can be engulfed by their stars. They may be responsible for differences in metallicity between ...

For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest ...

The discovery of these planets could indicate that they were formed by the same processes that form stars like our sun. "We are probing the very limits of the star-forming process," study co ...

Here, we’ll delve into exciting details about why stars twinkle and planets do not. Read on and find out for yourself. Stars are enormous bodies in space, far above us compared to our solar ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Infrared image of the center of the Orion Nebula taken with the NIRCam instrument on NASA's ...

Was one—or all—of these bright naked-eye planets the source of the famous “star of Bethlehem” story in Christian tradition? It seems likely, but regardless, this week is a great time to ...