Astronomers have discovered the strange dance that leads to the creation of rare "double hot Jupiters" in binary star systems that are "just right." ...

Four prominent celestial objects — the moon, a bright planet and two bright stars — will come together to form a "celestial ...

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GJ 504 b is an exoplanet orbiting the star GJ 504. This planet is estimated to be three to six times heavier than Jupiter.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

Exoplanet Gj 504 b was found using the Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS) Project ...

A field star drifting within 10,000 astronomical units may be enough. This could rattle the Oort Cloud, the icy shell at the ...

A recent study indicates a small chance that Earth could be ejected from our solar system due to passing stars. Simulations ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

The next waypoint on Psyche's voyage will be a flyby of Mars in May 2026. Officials expect Psyche to keep that date, which is ...

In this process, the gravitational pull of a second star in a binary system slowly disturbs the orbits of planets around the ...