Bombshell NASA data identifies 45 ‘habitable’ rocky worlds | Science | News
A major new study has pinpointed 45 rocky planets beyond our solar system that could support life, in…
Astronomers Just Watched Two Planets Smashing Into Each Other 11,000 Light-Years Away
Rendering of the planetary collision astronomers suspect occurred around star Gaia20ehk in 2021. Credit: Andy Tzanidakis Astronomers have…
Astronomers Watch in Amazement as 2 Planets Smash Into Each Other Around Nearby Star
A seemingly regular, Sun-like star began acting really weird, flickering haphazardly as its light faded in and out.…
Meet Roman Space Telescope: Nasa’s eye in sky that will look for 1 lakh alien worlds
Nasa has officially finished building its next massive eye in the sky, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.…
New observations show that Jupiter is smaller than expected
The largest planet in our solar system may actually be smaller than we thought. New measurements taken by NASA’s…
The 3-Body Problem Just Got an Upgrade—and You Can Thank Einstein
I’ve yet to meet a physicist that didn’t believe in the beauty of the general theory of relativity—Einstein’s…
A second home in space? This planet is amazingly similar to Earth
Around 146 light-years from Earth, a planet could be orbiting an alien star that is more similar to…
Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?
A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference:…
Powerful magnetic fields on super-Earths could boost chances of life
View larger. | This is an artist’s concept of a super-Earth with a deep magma ocean generating a…
A young progenitor for the most common planetary systems in the Galaxy
Transit observations and analysis We analysed a heterogeneous dataset of light curves from space- and ground-based telescopes (Supplementary…
JWST observations reveal massive helium clouds escaping from exoplanet WASP-107 b
Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the…
Astronomers measure mass and distance of free-floating planet
Back to Article List According to a newly released study, scientists have discovered a free-floating planet and, for…