Drawing on the University of Arizona’s renowned strength in interferometry, astronomers from Steward Observatory are leading ...

Kappa Tucanae A, a star located seventy light-years away, has baffled astronomers due to the presence of extremely hot dust.

Seventy light-years from Earth, a star called Kappa Tucanae A harbors one of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries: dust so ...

What is the importance of studying explosive volcanism on Venus? This is what a study published in the Journal of Geophysical ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

This collection celebrates the 30 th anniversary of the detection of the first planet outside our Solar System orbiting a main sequence star. Experts reflect on the impact of various milestones in ...

An international team of scientists dubbed the exoplanet, named GJ 251 c, a “super-Earth” as data suggest it has a rocky composition similar to Earth and is almost four times as massive. Credit: ...

"We thought clouds would hide life from us, but surprisingly, they could help us find life." Astronomers usually don't like clouds. After all, clouds obscure their view of the cosmos. But dense cloud ...