PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...
When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...
Auburn, AL) For millions of years, a fragment of ice and dust drifted between the stars—like a sealed bottle cast into the cosmic ocean. This summer ...
NASA’s Swift telescope spotted signs of water on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS - proof that water flows far beyond our solar ...
The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...
Discovered in 1846 through mathematics rather than sight, Neptune was the first planet found by calculation — astronomers noticed Uranus drifting off course and predicted another world’s gravity was ...
A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...
A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...
"This is the strongest accretion episode ever recorded for a planetary-mass object." Scientists have identified a lone planet with a ferocious appetite. Located in the Chamaeleon constellation roughly ...
What can auroras tell astronomers about starless planets? A recent study analyzed a close-by rogue planet, SIMP-0136, and found its extreme temperatures and strange atmospheric properties. The ...