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

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 ...

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

Last year, Jean Schneider — an astronomer at the Paris Observatory whose expertise is on extrasolar planets — published an article in the American Astronomical Society predicting a few dates the nova ...

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

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

PSI scientists are involved in numerous NASA and international missions, the study of Mars and other planets, the Moon, asteroids, comets, interplanetary dust, impact physics, the origin of the Solar ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

This finding came from recent measurements that showed faint traces of molecules at key parts of the spectrum. Sub-Neptune planets that are smaller than Neptune in size are the most common type of ...

This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and could contain significant quantities of diamonds. This discovery challenges our understanding of planetary ...