A Galway-based student has led researchers to the discovery of a new planet after originally thinking she had spotted a large clump of dust. Chloe Lawlor, a PhD student at the Centre for Astronomy at ...

Astronomers have discovered a new class of exoplanet that defies traditional categories of planetary classification. In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers led by the ...

Arizona – and Flagstaff specifically – has long considered itself the home of Pluto. After all, Percival Lowell, the namesake of the state's most prominent observatory, was not only one of the first ...