An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Since the third Gaia data release in 2022, wide binary stars with separation greater than several thousand astronomical units have been intensely investigated across the world, to probe the nature of ...

Improving research on planetary formation comes from an out-of-this-world innovation made right here in Michigan. In previous models, simulations resulted in an amorphous blob, as if the batter was ...

Understanding how massive stars evolve and return energy, momentum, and metals to their surroundings is a central problem in ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...