So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the minds of academics and dreamers alike. As far back as the 16th century, ...
A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...
The discovery of a small protoplanetary disk has implications for the commonality of a particular kind of extrasolar planet, ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...
A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...
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The Orion Nebula — where young stars are being actively born — serves as a natural laboratory for uncovering the secrets ...
From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...
Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, April 3 at 11 a.m. for a virtual presentation by postdoctoral scholar Rafael Luque, "Toward a Holistic Understanding of ...
The national traveling exhibition explores space and astronomy, covering topics such as the search for habitable worlds.