In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

The discovery of new planets is always thrilling. This time, scientists have found an unusual planet orbiting a nearby star.

No planet in our solar system has a polar orbit. The several exoplanets known to follow such a path orbit only a single star. When two stars, or in this case two brown dwarfs, orbit each other, it is ...

In the quest to find approximately Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" i.e. neither too hot nor too cold) ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

The radial velocity method watches for the telltale wobble as an orbiting planet tugs minutely on its sun, causing the star to move toward or away from Earth. This Doppler shifts the star’s ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...