A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Interstellar material has been found within our solar system, but ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

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 ...

Bacon (STScI) Evaporating extrasolar planet, from Video (artist's impression) Credit: ESA, Alfred Vidal-Madjar (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, France) and NASA. Red Giant Sun Credit: ...

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

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 ...

One of the curious features of Taylor Swift's work is that she regularly uses words borrowed from astronomy and cosmology.

The discovery of a small protoplanetary disk has implications for the commonality of a particular kind of extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," called a super-Earth. These are rocky worlds that are more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a new planet in our solar system called ‘Enaiposha’. GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, is a planet discovered 47 light-years away. This extraordinary celestial body ...