An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

The pair of brown dwarfs, known as 2M1510, were detected in 2018 by Professor Amaury Triaud and others with the Search for ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s ...

co-author of the study and professor emeritus of astronomy at The Ohio State University. "Scientists knew there were more small planets than big planets, but in this study, we were able to show ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out before sunrise and view brilliant Venus. The planet, which is only outshone by the Sun or the Moon, will lie low in ...

The annual Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF) was held over the weekend of April 5 and 6 at Rockland Community College in Suffern, New York. Organized by the Rockland Astronomy Club, NEAF is one of ...