Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the ...

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

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

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

During just one night – 28 February – they will be joined by Mercury, a rare seven-planet alignment visible in the sky. It is a spectacle that will not be visible again until 2040. But such ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding cake ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...