A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

A seven-luminaries-deep parade of planets will line up and light up the night sky this week, folks. Just after sunset on Feb. 28, 2025, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

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