Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...
"We have observed giant gas planets, such as Jupiter or Saturn, but in another solar system," explains the leader of this research on the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years away. The study ...
A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...
Uranus' accidental discovery 240 years ago greatly enhanced our understanding of the solar system, doubling the size of the ...
A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
it turns out we have plenty of particles from another star system already here. The closest stellar system to us is the triple system Alpha Centauri. It’s currently creeping closer to our Solar ...
In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...