In the future, this feature could be used to shed light on chemistry and even the birth of planetary systems.

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

A giant planet the size of Saturn orbiting a sun-like star has potentially been identified in our nearest neighbouring stellar system, Alpha Centauri. At just four light years from Earth, Alpha ...

Astronomers have confirmed a new super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a nearby M dwarf star, detected by NASA’s Transiting ...

Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been in relatively tight orbits around their host stars, allowing us to track them as they repeatedly loop around them. But we’ve also discovered a handful ...