Artist’s impression of CHEOPS in orbit above Earth. In this view the satellite’s telescope cover is closed. Credit: ESA / ATG medialab While the planet…
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This artist’s impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to…
This image shows the disc around the young AB Aurigae star, where ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has spotted signs of planet birth. Close to…
Artist’s concept depicts Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone — a range of distance from a…
Astronomers at the University of Canterbury (UC) have found an incredibly rare new Super-Earth planet towards the center of the galaxy. The planet is one…
Astronomers may one day decipher the atmospheres of Earth-like rocky exoplanets, shown here in an artistic rendering by Cornell doctoral candidate Jack Madden ’20. The…
This is an artist’s illustration of the super-hot exoplanet WASP-79b, located 780 light-years away. The planet orbits precariously close to a star that is much…
This is an artist’s illustration of the Kepler-88 planetary system. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Hawaii astronomer discovers massive extrasolar planet with Maunakea telescope.…
Data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an expanding cloud of dust produced in a collision between two large bodies orbiting the bright…
Illustration of an exoplanet. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight…
An artist’s concept of what Kepler-1649c could look like from its surface. Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data…
They say variety is the spice of life, and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that a certain elemental ‘variety’—sulfur—is indeed a ‘spice’…
WFIRST will make its microlensing observations in the direction of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The higher density of stars will yield more…
This illustration shows a nightside view of the exoplanet WASP-76b. The ultra-hot giant exoplanet has a dayside where temperatures climb above 2400 degrees Celsius, high…
This illustration shows a nightside view of the exoplanet WASP-76b. The ultra-hot giant exoplanet has a dayside where temperatures climb above 2400 degrees Celsius, high…
An artist’s conception of Piro and Vissapragada’s model of a ringed planet transiting in front of its host star. They used these models to constrain…
Artist’s impression of K2-18b. Credit: Amanda Smith Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the…
This is an artistic impression of a red dwarf star’s magnetic interaction with its exoplanet. Credit: Danielle Futselaar (artsource.nl) Radio telescope in the Netherlands captures…
Penn State-led near-infrared spectrograph recently installed on the 10m Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas. Credit: Ethan Tweedie Photography A signal originally detected by…