For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from ...

A team of astronomers led by University of Arizona graduate student Kevin Wagner has discovered a planet with three suns, using a new planet-finding instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

“The presence of this mineral puts a lot more nuance on what was going on,” said Mario Parente, an associate professor of ...

WISPIT 2b was detected as part of a five-year observational research project during which the international team sought to establish whether wide orbit gas giant planets were more common around ...

An international team of professional and amateur astronomers, using simple off-the-shelf equipment to trawl the skies for planets outside our solar system, has hauled in its first “catch.” The ...

As a child, Shyla Raghav ’07 watched the animated series “Captain Planet and the Planeteers.” After the titular superhero and his five human helpers tackled each episode’s environmental concern — from ...

Maybe elementary school students were on to something when they used Styrofoam spheres to create replicas of the solar system. A new planet — discovered by a worldwide team of astronomers led by ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Galway, has hailed the "remarkable ...

A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system and wipe out life on this planet, according to a UC Riverside experiment. UCR astrophysicist ...