Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...
"We have observed giant gas planets, such as Jupiter or Saturn, but in another solar system," explains the leader of this research on the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years away. The study ...
it turns out we have plenty of particles from another star system already here. The closest stellar system to us is the triple system Alpha Centauri. It’s currently creeping closer to our Solar ...
In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...
The solar system has many more moons than the one we ... is actually made up of three separate bodies orbiting one another in a complex triad. This rare orbital configuration is often referred ...
Both objects had trajectories unbound by the Sun, suggesting they came our way through the emptiness of deep space from another Solar System. Writing in the journal Nature Communications ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...