A bright ring of dust circling a young star can look calm from far away. In reality, it may mark one of the messiest moments ...
University of Warwick astronomers have found a new way to estimate the masses of planets hidden inside the dusty disks surrounding young stars.
In theory, it could happen – one of the very first solutions to the three-body problem was this scenario. But it is very unlikely to be stable over time. You need the stars to have near equal mass and ...
A team of astronomers, led by University of Warwick in collaboration with researchers at MIT and McMaster, have developed a ...
In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and planetary masses silently orbit their stars—sometimes thousands of astronomical ...
Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...
AMES, Iowa – Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their ...
Right angle Illustration of 2M1510 showing the orbits of the two brown dwarfs (in blue) and that of the planet (in orange). (Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada) The first strong evidence for an exoplanet with an ...
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