What stars and planets are visible in the night sky tonight? Join us for an introduction to the night sky, the stars, and constellations. Then we’ll lift off of the Earth to take a tour of the solar ...

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...

Some of the planets and star systems are based on real-life locations in space. The most obvious example of this is the Alpha Centauri system, based on the real-life star, and the first star ...

Winds of Change: James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Elusive Details in Young Star Systems Oct. 7, 2024 — Planet-forming disks, maelstroms of gas and dust swirling around young stars, are ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

Most stars form in collections, called clusters or associations, that include very massive stars. These giant stars send out ...

But how do we determine the ages of planets around other stars, which are way too far for us to travel to? "The best way to learn about planets around other stars is actually just to study the ...

This 2018 artist's concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets' diameters, masses and distances from the host star (far left).

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

We wanted to put the spotlight on the planets themselves with this article, so you'll have a much better understanding of ...

The smooth, planet-less disk of the Vega star system challenges planetary formation theories, suggesting alternative cosmic ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...