A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second—an unprecedented rate that ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

A rogue planet, untethered to any star, has been observed consuming six billion tons of gas and dust per second, challenging ...

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

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Washington, DC – Using a network of small automated telescopes known as HAT, Smithsonian astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other known world. This new planet, designated HAT-P-1, orbits ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and exciting." Scientists have perhaps discovered the weirdest planetary system ...

But where is all that matter? Across all planets and stars, scientists can find only around 70% of the baryons they predicted should be in the universe. "It's basically a cosmic bookkeeping problem," ...

Telescopes like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope have given astronomers unprecedented access to the cosmos, but even these advanced imaging systems come with ...

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