We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...

The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...

The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

Although Barnard's Star is a small, dim red dwarf only a little bigger than Jupiter and thus much less bright than our Sun, ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around two brown dwarfs—marking the first evidence of ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

"Contrary to popular conception, everything in the solar system does not orbit the Sun," said lead author and SETI Institute scientist Stuart Pilorz. "Rather, the Sun and planets all orbit their ...

Astronomers have discovered the weirdest planetary system ever seen, consisting of a planet rolling around rare binary ...

Scientists know of over a dozen planets that orbit twin stars like the fictional “Star Wars” desert planet Tatooine.