The exoplanet — named 14 Herculis c, or 14 Her c for short — orbits a sunlike star about 60 light-years from Earth in the ...

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Scientists Stunned to Discover an Enormous Water Source in Outer Space, Say It's 3X Greater Than Earth’s Oceans Water is one ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets ...

Whatever the origin story, TOI-6894b is leading the ranks of other known gas giants orbiting small and faint stars that ...

Astronomers found a giant planet orbiting one of the smallest stars ever known to host one, challenging everything we thought ...

Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful ...

Astronomers have captured silicate clouds and a mysterious disk around two giant young exoplanets, revealing surprises that ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

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Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star ...