Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling ...

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 ...

New research suggests that the close passage of a nearby star,HD 7977, might have sent comets from the outer reaches of the ...

"It's going to look different because it didn't come from our solar system and that's what makes it so magical." ...

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 ...

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 ...

How can we explore the outer reaches of other solar systems? The answer lies in debris belts, disks composed of dust and debris, which orbit a star. Solar systems with debris disks can span the early ...

Hence, finding a planet that orbits really, really far from its parent star is a rare occurrence — so rare, in fact, that it’s hard to do even in our own solar system. Indeed, there is much evidence ...

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 ...