A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

From a distance, it looks like a serene blue twin of our own world, a dot that could almost pass for Earth in a telescope ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

You’ve set your telescope up and are showing people some of the wonders in the sky. Of course, they’re going to ask you questions. Here are some you might be asked. How many do you know the answers to ...