Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

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Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

The work you put into getting comfortable with science passages will serve you well in your legal career. One day when an ...

The most elusive planetary aurora in the Solar System has finally been revealed in all its gently glowing glory.

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At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

The T Coronae Borealis, also known as T CrB, is a recurrent nova that bursts about every 80 years. Astronomers are pointing ...

An exoplanet—also called an extrasolar planet—is a planet outside a solar system that orbits another star. With direct imaging, astronomers can see an exoplanet’s light in a telescope and study its ...

Prof. Christophe Lovis has received financial support from the SWATCH Group - 3.5 million francs over five years to complete the construction of his high-precision Ristretto spectrometer at the Geneva ...

Astronomers had observed auroras on all other planets in the Solar System, and spotting one in Neptune completes the list.