In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

An exciting first in planetary discoveries!

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

The planet is 120 light-years away from Earth and is on a sideways axis orbiting two stars, which resembles the activity of a ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...

For about a decade, he and other researchers have been trying to prove that the so-called "Planet 9" exists. So far, the only evidence has come from some oddities in the orbits of small Pluto-like ...