With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...

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This video explains how the solar system formed and why most planets move in the same direction, using basic physics and ...

On Earth, you can look up at night and see the Moon shining bright from hundreds of thousands of miles away. But if you went to Venus, that wouldn’t be the case. Not every planet has a moon – so why ...

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The UK government is to slash by 30 percent its funding for astronomy, particle and nuclear physics in a move branded as ...

Astronomers have long faced a strange contradiction: most stars are born in pairs, and ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for Einstein's general relativity may rewrite that rule. When you purchase ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Eliza Frankel, a University of Wyoming Ph.D. student studying physics and astronomy, was one of seven graduate students honored with the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award at the 247th ...

This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...