In addition to the TMT, proposed federal funding cuts threaten the world-class Keck and Gemini observatories, the solar ...

The NSF NOIRLab-operated Gemini North telescope captured stunning imagery of galaxies UGC 12914 and UGC 12915, aka 'Taffy ...

Travel 60 million light-years away into the constellation Virgo to catch a glimpse of interacting galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC 4567. The imagery of the galactic mash-up was captured by the Gemini North ...

In the hunt for exoplanets, many seek out habitable worlds. There's comfort in discovering planets that remind us of ...

The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, according to a new study.

The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, according to a new study by an ...

In 2005 Levison and his colleagues at the Côte d’Azur Observatory in Nice, France, published an influential hypothesis, now called the Nice model, which posits that the solar system began with ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focussed on planets in ...

Astronomers confirm the existence of small, hot and likely rocky planets by observing the subtle gravitational wobbles of the star they orbit Researchers supported by the U.S. National Science ...

In the search for planets beyond our solar system, many scientists focus on finding worlds that could support life. But ...

Now three months past its conjunction with the sun in March, Saturn is currently well separated from the dawn glow. On June 1 ...

Wide binary stars with separation greater than about 2000 astronomical units are interesting natural laboratories that allow ...