A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...
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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A massive white dwarf (lower left) and a "blue lurker" star (upper right) – which could easily be ...
In theory, a planet may be able to orbit a binary star system in a figure of eight, but it may not be particularly stable, ...
A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the size of our planet, circle one of our closest stellar neighbors, a ...
Astronomers at Durham University and collaborators at the University of Warwick used the European Southern Observatory’s Very ...
A newly discovered star system in the heart of the Milky Way is moving at unprecedented speeds. Scientists believe this ...
For a century, astronomers have been studying Barnard’s Star in the hope of finding planets around it. Excited scientists have found three more planets around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star ...