In a statement Thursday, astrophysicist Amri Wandel of Hebrew University in Jerusalem said his research challenges the traditional concept of the "habitable zone," the narrow orbital range around a ...
Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...
In astronomy, an occultation is when a celestial body or object — like the moon or a planet — passes in front of a distant ...
Planetary rings explained: composition, formation theories, and a comparison of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune’s rings.
NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...
Planet 9 sits at the edge of scientific imagination, promising either an epic expansion of the Solar System or a lesson in ...
A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the iconic Ring Nebula by a European team led by astronomers at UCL (University ...
Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...
The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...
When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...
A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...