Now, an international research team has reported the discovery of similar luminous displays on the brown dwarf SIMP-0136, located 20 light-years away. These auroras heat the upper atmosphere of the ...

Astronomers have observed circumstellar disks as well as planets in orbits around stars other than the Sun before, but never a planet being assembled in a circumstellar disk. The direct imaging of ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

These Martian dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its ...