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A star about 600 light-years away is giving astronomers a front-row view to the environments in which rocky planets like Earth form around the most abundant stars in the universe. Called ISO-ChaI 147, ...

A pair of giant planets circling a star more than 1,100 light-years from Earth looks almost too bloated to be real. Each world is about the size of Jupiter. Yet both are far lighter than expected, ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope just solved a conundrum by proving a controversial finding made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope more than 20 years ago. In 2003, Hubble provided ...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA Chris Impey, University of Arizona If you look across ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

WSU’s feline scientist, Dr. Universe, visited with WSU geologist Katie Cooper to discuss how planets get measured (composite featuring a photo by dottedhippo on iStock and illustrations by Dusan and ...

My favorite planet is Earth. I can’t help it. It’s my cozy home. It’s also a brilliant blue with bits of brown and swirly white. I like that I can look at a photo of Earth and see familiar things – ...