This article originally published at Earth just got a new companion in space. It's sticking around for 60 years.. A one-way ...
Astronomers have now confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets orbiting distant stars, marking a significant milestone in humanity’s ...
Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...
For almost a decade, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet in the solar system. Recently, new evidence of ...
The star WISPIT 2 was first observed using VLT-SPHERE (Very Large Telescope – Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch), a ground-based telescope in northern Chile operated by the ...
Astronomers observe for the first time the actual motion of spirals in a protoplanetary disk, revealing gravitational ...
The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...
Technically, it's not a real moon. It's what scientists call a quasi-moon-a space rock that doesn't orbit Earth directly but ...