"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...
Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...
New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...
Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.
The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing ... we see around us such as stars, planets, moons, you, me and basically ...
The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...
The night sky is putting on a celestial show with a dazzling "planetary parade" featuring six major planets and a bonus comet.