This illustration shows a red dwarf star orbited by a hypothetical exoplanet. Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI) An international team of researchers with participation from the…
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Artist’s impression of the interior of a hot, molten rocky planet. Credit: © University of Bern, illustration: Thibaut Roger A hot, molten Earth would be…
Astronomers have discovered a giant Jupiter-like exoplanet in an unlikely location — orbiting a small red dwarf star. The newly identified gas giant, designated GJ…
Venus may have been a temperate planet hosting liquid water for 2-3 billion years, until a dramatic transformation starting over 700 million years ago resurfaced…
This artist’s impression shows the planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18b is now the only super-Earth exoplanet known…
Artist’s conception of the Kepler-13AB binary star system as revealed by observations including the new Gemini Observatory data. The two stars (A and B) are…
Illustration of an exoplanet. Credit: Ricardo Ramirez Three times the mass of Jupiter, a first-of-its-kind planet swings around its star on a bizarre path. Astronomers…
A view of Earth from space taken from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman Two McGill University astronomers have assembled a “fingerprint” for Earth,…
Artist’s rendering of the surface of LHS 3844b, a planet that has been found to have no atmosphere. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Study reports on…
If the orbit of an extrasolar planet is aligned in such a way that it passes in front of its star when viewed from Earth,…
This artistic representation shows how an asteroid, destroyed by the enormous force of gravity of a white dwarf, has formed a ring of dust particles…
Brazilian researchers have identified robust signs of the existence of a giant object in the Cygnus constellation orbiting a binary system of a live star…
This is an artist’s concept of a planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a K star. Credits: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/Tim Pyle Scientists looking for signs…