Maybe you have had a casual interest in astronomy for years, looking up at the night sky every chance you get. Or maybe you’ve just recently become interested in the wonders hanging high above our ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

The findings represent the first major results from OASIS, a program that uses advanced telescope instruments to seek out ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf that were orbiting distant stars, a discovery ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Children love looking up at the stars and imagining distant galaxies, but with just their eyes, they can ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting to ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

The article discusses three main telescope types: refractors (best for bright objects, portable), reflectors (best for faint objects, larger apertures), and catadioptrics (compromise between aperture ...