The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.

The unexpected detection of a new planet has been hailed as a “remarkable discovery” by Irish astronomers who were involved in its identification. The newly spotted planet, named WISPIT 2b, is ...

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

With new technologies comes new discoveries. Or so Spider Man's Uncle Ben might have said if he was an astronomer. Or a scientist more generally—but in astronomy that saying is more true than many ...

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

Some of the exercise equipment at Monument’s new Planet Fitness located at 16096 Jackson Creek Parkway. The company’s “judgement-free zone” philosophy – and its new hometown – adorn the wall. ((Doug ...

A Planet Fitness gym is part of the retail offerings at The Crest at Woodmen, a 77-acre mixed-use project being developed southeast of Interstate 25 and Woodmen Road. The fitness company opened its ...

They didn’t use a space telescope, or a huge ground-based scope like the Keck or the Gemini, or even the sort of backyard telescope some planet hunters rely on to gather evidence of alien worlds.

NASA's Kepler mission, which has been searching the skies for Earth-like planets since 2009, has confirmed the discovery of a whopping 715 new planets orbiting around 305 stars. That bring the count ...

What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular multi-ringed disk. Still glowing and actively accreting gas, the planet ...

An infrared image shows a brown dwarf discovered by astronomers using the W.M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea on Feb. 23, 2024. Data from both the observatory and telescope ...