Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby Red Dwarf Gliese 887
International researchers led by University of Göttingen find multiple planet system orbiting Gliese 887. The nearest exoplanets to us provide the best opportunities for detailed…
International researchers led by University of Göttingen find multiple planet system orbiting Gliese 887. The nearest exoplanets to us provide the best opportunities for detailed…
Have you ever wondered what a sunset on Uranus might look like? As you can see in the animation above, a Uranian sunset is a…
Systematic survey of 104 nearby stars turns up 25 dust disks with evidence of planets. Astronomers this month released the largest collection of sharp, detailed…
Astronomers study stars and planets much younger than the Sun to learn about past events that shaped the Solar System and Earth. Most of these…
New Direct Images Captured with W. M. Keck Observatory’s Upgraded Adaptive Optics System Lead to First Independent Confirmation of PDS 70 Protoplanets New evidence shows…
Jupiter-size planets orbiting close to their stars have upended ideas about how giant planets form. Finding young members of this planet class could help answer…
Researchers have found that rocky exoplanets which formed early in the life of the galaxy seem to have had a greater chance of developing a…
Scientists have expanded our understanding of potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars by including a critical climate component — the presence of airborne dust. The…
Discovery made through the Disk Detective project could help the search for new planets. Brown dwarfs are the middle child of astronomy, too big to…
The star Kepler-160 and its companion KOI-456.04 are more reminiscent of the Sun-Earth system than any previously known exoplanet-star pair. Among the more than 4,000…
Research from the University of Sheffield has found that the chance of finding Earth-like planets in their early stages of formation is much higher than…
About the size of a briefcase, the CubeSat was built to test new technologies but exceeded expectations by spotting a planet outside our solar system….
While the planet has been on lockdown the last two months, a new space telescope called CHEOPS opened its eyes, took its first pictures of…
The existence of a planet the size of Earth around the closest star in the Alpha Centauri star system, Proxima Centauri, has been confirmed by…
The Twist Marks the Spot – ESO Telescope Sees Signs of Planet Birth Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT)…
After examining a dozen types of suns and a roster of planet surfaces, Cornell astronomers have developed a practical model – an environmental color “decoder”…
In search for alien life, planets exactly like Earth may not be best places to look, study finds. Researchers across the globe have long tackled…
Whether there is life elsewhere in the universe is a question people have pondered for millennia, and within the last few decades, great strides have…