D printers will make the tools, structures, and habitats space pioneers need to survive in a hostile alien environment.

3D printers will make the tools, structures and habitats space pioneers need to survive in a hostile alien environment. They ...

The planet orbits its star at about 2.5 per cent of the distance of Earth to the sun. It is about a third closer to its star than our solar system's innermost planet Mercury is to the sun - so ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Tylos (or WASP-121b) is a gaseous, giant exoplanet located some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), scientists ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

Because each layer in the planet's atmosphere hosts unique winds carrying different elements, the researchers could map an unprecedented 3D structure of an exoplanet's atmosphere. As the graphic ...

According to a new paper published in the journal Nature, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of the layered ... Kepler can tell us how big a planet is, but it doesn't know what the planet ...

American space agency NASA launched on March 11 the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization ...

Credit: NASA / ESA, J. Olmsted For the first time, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of an alien planet’s atmosphere, revealing a complex system of layered gases and extreme winds. The ...

An illustration image of the atmosphere of the exoplanet Tylos (or WASP-121b) ...