A new rectangular telescope design could finally spot Earth-like planets around nearby stars, bringing the search for alien ...
TRAPPIST-1e shows no signs of its first atmosphere, but hints of a secondary one remain. Liquid water could still be possible ...
For hundreds of years, telescopes have allowed us to map the stars and study the great mysteries of the cosmos. Astronomers ...
Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve ...
The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...
Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...
By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...
Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...
Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...
WITH THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT, IF YOU TAKE A LOOK UP FRIDAY, ALL SEVEN PLANETS WILL BE VISIBLE. YES. STAFF OF THE EMIL BUEHLER PLANETARIUM AT SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE AND MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL FLORIDA ...