Astronomers may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the "Star Wars" planet ...

Astronomers want to collect as much data as possible using as many systems as possible. Sometimes that requires coordination ...

Today, astronomy has moved far beyond pointing a lens at the night sky, so I’ve brought on Gioia Rau to describe her work on exoplanets, as well as how AI and recent declines in launch costs will ...

From distant exoplanets and the universe's first galaxies to the next generation of space telescopes, astronomy's biggest annual gathering is set to deliver a week of discoveries, debates and ...

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After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar system—and it's an absolute giant. Reading time 3 minutes In September, NASA ...

Using HARPS and HARPS-N spectrographs, astronomers have observed a nearby K-type star designated HD 176986, known to host two ...

How many planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, exist throughout the Milky Way Galaxy? While that might never be determined, NASA recently announced the total number of confirmed ...

Space is full of unsolved mysteries, and a team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have recently turned up a doozy. "I remember after we got the data down, our collective reaction was 'What the ...