A bright ring of dust circling a young star can look calm from far away. In reality, it may mark one of the messiest moments ...

About 5 million years ago, the exoplanet PDS 70b was born. This planet, 370 light years from Earth, is a cosmic newborn that formed well after the extinction of the dinosaurs. It’s part of a pair of ...

Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant ‘super-Jupiter’ planet, demonstrating a technique that could enable breakthroughs in the quest to understand how ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy without a parent star, turning a once purely theoretical class of worlds into a ...

To derive the stellar rotation axis of Beta Pictoris the team used the unique high angular and high spectral resolution mode of VLTI/GRAVITY to measure shifts in the centroid position in the hydrogen ...