The VLT is a powerful astronomical observatory that captures high-resolution images and spectra of celestial objects, ...

Homeworld, the slow-burning deep space strategy game, is one of my favorites of all time. Coldly evocative of the artwork of ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 light years from Earth — an astonishingly eagle-eyed feat of cosmic ...