SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew was imagined as an Amblin-style production that took inspiration from movies like The Goonies and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Thus far, the family-friendly series has been a ...

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A Hidden Planet: The Missing Piece? To solve these puzzles, researchers have proposed the existence of an undiscovered Earth-like planet in the Kuiper Belt. In a recent study, Dr. Patryk Sofia Lykawka ...

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

Astronomers have long struggled to find young planets hidden inside the thick clouds of gas and dust that swirl around new stars. These swirling clouds—called protoplanetary discs—are the birthplaces ...

Near-surface water ice could supply essential resources for future human exploration on the Red Planet. Before sending people ...

Viewers are eager to know why At Attin is a hidden planet in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. The new episode features Crimson Jack and the children forging a partnership to locate their home planet, At ...

A powerful, newly refined image-processing technique may allow astronomers to discover extrasolar planets that are possibly lurking in over a decade’s worth of Hubble Space Telescope archival data.