What a surprise to discover a planet that instantly evokes the Star Wars universe! Instead of a single sun, it orbits two ...
Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...
In astronomy, there is a concept called "degeneracy." It has nothing to do with delinquent people, but instead is used to ...
NASA is celebrating a big milestone after the 6,000th exoplanet discovery was confirmed this week. Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets ...
A new discovery, made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), may just be the weirdest exoplanet yet, possessing an ...