ALMA planet formation study confirms first gas-wake detection beside a photographable protoplanet. New observations of WISPIT ...

Have you ever thought which planet takes the longest time to complete one revolution around the Sun? Among the eight planets in our Solar System, Neptune has the longest year and is the first largest ...

By William Poor, University of Washington As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, hovering, flitting drones, spare a ...

Researchers use stellar pulsations to detect substellar companions around A-type stars — including what could be a ...

Material from the disk is actively accreting onto the Jupiter-mass planet, which sits within a prominent gap in the disk, ...

Using the same planet-hunting techniques as Earth astronomers, would inhabitants of a planet hundreds of light-years away be able to detect Earth? Or would the gas giants overpower their observations?

Do you know the circumference of the Earth? Many would answer, "about 40,000 km." However, behind this seemingly simple number lie hundreds of years of scientific exploration and the Earth's ...

Astronomers have directly imaged the “swirl” where a protoplanet interacts with the gas in the surrounding protoplanetary disk. Taking an image of structures this small requires a powerful observatory ...

A scenic drive to Windy Ridge takes visitors deep into the Mount St. Helens blast zone, with views of Spirit Lake, wildlife ...

Google is preparing to launch its first prototype satellite under Project Suncatcher, a long-term research initiative ...

A new find raises the known temperature limits of complex life, expanding the hunt for eukaryotes on Earth and elsewhere in ...

Current planet-hunting methods can detect some Earth-sized worlds, but reliably confirming an Earth-mass planet in an Earth-like orbit around a Sun-like star remains beyond demonstrated capabilities ...