Twenty years ago today a magnetar’s epic tantrum made our planet ring like a bell from tens of thousands of light-years away ...
Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...
Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 ...
Exploring the staggering scale of our galaxy, the Milky Way, with its more than one trillion ... is finding a true Earth twin ...
An exoplanet is a planet from a different star system. Most known exoplanets orbit stars within the Milky Way ... shorthand with descriptions like "super-Earth," hot Jupiter, and mini-Neptune.
The discovery comes just days before what is anticipated to be a bumper year for exoplanet discovery, with the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to release more data.
A binary star system is orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.