Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
With the new spottings, Saturn has usurped Jupiter which has 95 known moons, while Uranus (28) and Neptune (16) remain third ...
MAROON-X was specifically designed to detect tiny exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars by detecting the minuscule ...
The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.