Delivering a lecture at the New Year "Kōsho Hajime" ceremony. Each year at the Imperial Palace in Japan, leading scholars are ...

Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President ...

Astronomy is generating data faster than any single research team can process it, and the instruments responsible are only ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of thousands of exoplanets, or planets that orbit other stars, and is potentially the ...

If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While Earth only has the one, Jupiter has about 100 that we know of (and likely ...

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When the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995, Sara Seager and Dave Charbonneau were graduate students at Harvard. Both were studying topics totally unrelated to planets orbiting distant stars. Yet ...

A team of scientists has confirmed that the nearby star GJ 887 hosts at least four planets, one of which could be a habitable world - the second closest to our own solar system. M dwarfs are the most ...

Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from ...

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these celestial objects less random. When you purchase through links on our site ...