When the Hubble Space Telescope set its sights toward the binary star system HD 106906, astronomers found a world that could resemble the long-sought Planet X. For the first time, astronomers are able ...

NASA leverages the Hubble Space Telescope for all manner of scientific endeavors. Recently Hubble was used to pin down the orbit of a massive exoplanet called HD 106906 b that is 11 times the mass of ...

With the breathtaking progress made in star and planet formation research aiming at far-away celestial objects, we can now investigate the conditions in environments around young stars and compare ...

A distant star system housing 6 planets that move in 'mathematically perfect' orbits has ignited a search for possible alien technosignatures. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have surmised the color of another planet beyond our solar system. HD 189733b's azure blue globe resembles Earth from afar but don't be fooled. This is a ...

Astronomers have detected a three-ringed structure in the nursery of planets in the inner planet-forming disk of a young star. This configuration suggests two Jupiter-mass planets are forming in the ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) found various silicate compounds and potentially iron, substances we also find in large amounts ...