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 exoplanet is what we call planets that exist outside of our own solar system. The first one was discovered in 1992, but as we get more powerful and precise telescopes and instruments, scientists ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, modelling and observational communities, will help to interpret the astronomical ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." Thirty years ago, on Oct. 6, 1995, the very first exoplanet to be discovered around a sun-like star was revealed. Called 51 Pegasi b, it was a ...

The team of astronomers behind the find suggested it could help us better understand planet and moon formation in our solar system and beyond the Milky Way. The team was able to make the first-ever ...

What will our solar system look like after the Sun dies? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team of scientists ...