The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

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Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

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Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

Analysis of early direct images from James Webb telescope show immense dust clouds on brown dwarf that lead to a blurring of ...

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

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Explore the mystery of TOI-3884, an exoplanet with a severely tilted orbit. With no clear cause for its 62-degree tilt, this ...

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