Uranus and Neptune May Have Taken Different Paths to Becoming Ice Giants
Uranus and Neptune are often described as near-twins, but a new study suggests their chemistry, and possibly their…
Tiny Planet-Forming Disks Reveal Hidden Rings and Gaps
For years, astronomers thought they knew what planet formation looked like. Powerful images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
A 171-Year-Old Planetary Mystery Just Took a Surprising Turn
70 Ophiuchi AB was first identified as a binary star system in the late 1700s by the German…
Earth and Mars Were Formed in Fundamentally Different Ways, Study Finds
Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago from dust, rock, and gas surrounding the young Sun. Over time,…
AI finds 44 star systems that could hide Earth-like planets
A machine-learning model identified 44 known planetary systems that could contain undiscovered Earth-like planets.Tests reached up to 99%…
Rogue Planets Challenge Our Assumptions About Life in the Universe
In the early 2000s, scientists were scanning the skies for faint objects when they first began to come…
Earth May Not Be a Cosmic Fluke, New Simulations Suggest
This artist’s impression shows the temperate planet Ross 128 b, with its red dwarf parent star in the…
Dusty Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes May Be Secret Planet Factories
Astronomers from New Mexico State University, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center and CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College propose…
Rocky Planets May Have Started Forming Just 100 Million Years after Big Bang
New simulations suggest supernova explosions of the Universe’s first stars scattered the ingredients for rocky planets only 100…
Scientists recreated a tiny piece of the early universe inside a glass tube to study how life’s building blocks formed |
Long before Earth existed, before the Sun had fully formed, clouds of gas and microscopic dust drifted through…
Astronomers Probe Chemistry of Giant Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b
Using the upgraded GRAVITY+ instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), astronomers have measured the ratio of…
Nasa’s Hubble captures a spectacular red, white and blue stellar nursery where thousands of stars are being born |
A striking new image released by NASA offers a rare, close up look at one of the busiest…