A young Canadian student at Université de Montréal discovers new exoplanet ideal for detailed characterization.…
Ottawa and Quebec announce $4M in funding for the world-class observatory through 2023. With a…
SPIRou’s long awaited large planet survey will be debuting soon. This program will extent for…
Brown dwarfs, the larger cousins of giant planets, undergo atmospheric changes from cloudy to cloudless…
Puzzling finding raises new questions about atmospheric physics of giant planets The hottest point on…
Dim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter,…
Sometimes a brown dwarf is actually a planet—or planet-like anyway. A team led by Carnegie’s…
A team led by iREx researcher Lauren Weiss combined measurements from the W. M. Keck…
When a star is young, it is often still surrounded by a primordial rotating disk…
Cool brown dwarfs are a hot topic in astronomy right now. Smaller than stars and…
A group of researchers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have discovered a planet-like body…
For the last 20 years, the giant planets known as hot Jupiters have presented astronomers…