Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...

Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

Four giant, rapidly evolving planets between the sizes of Neptune and Jupiter orbit the star, but unlike growing babies,the new research shows that these planets are contracting in size and are ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Time-lapse footage of a newly discovered exoplanet as it makes its slow journey around two stars. To obtain the image of the planet, astronomers needed to remove the stars' glare. Two star icons mark ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...