An international research team announces the discovery of a new exoplanet orbiting a binary star system. Named HD 143811 b, ...
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explores how binary star systems—two stars born together orbiting each other—can serve as natural laboratories for understanding planet ...
Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...
In the 1990s, astronomers confirmed the first planets orbiting stars beyond our sun. Since then, the tally has risen steadily, and last year it crossed a striking milestone: more than 6,000 known ...