Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...

Europe is currently building the next generation of telescopes, led by the ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, which is ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...