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.…
How Big Can a Planet Get Without Becoming a Star? JWST Data Solves 20-Year Mystery of Rule Breaking Exoplanets
One way gas giants form is through core accretion, where solid cores gradually grow in a disk by…
Scientists may have found a huge new shortcut for finding alien planets
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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…
Is a surprisingly massive exomoon orbiting this big exoplanet?
View larger. | Artist’s concept of a massive exomoon orbiting a gas giant exoplanet. A team of astronomers…
Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?
A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference:…
Journey to Center of Milky Way With Upcoming NASA Roman Core Survey
At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black…
NASA AI Model That Found 370 Exoplanets Now Digs Into TESS Data
Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our Sun, known as exoplanets. More than…
New survey of nearest stars reveals best spots for life
View larger. | This is an artist’s concept of Kepler-186f, an Earth-sized exoplanet about 500 light-years from Earth.…
Animal life unlikely around a third of stars in the galaxy, study says
Back to Article List While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study…
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…