How to make a super-Earth: The universe's most common planets are whittled down by stellar radiation
Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...
Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.
A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about its mass and direction. Scientists have known about this and other rogue ...
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How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets
Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.
A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing link in planet formation.
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Giant cosmic 'sandwich' is the largest planet-forming disk ever seen — Space photo of the week
A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.
New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...
“Bit by bit, these tiny building blocks land on rocky planets within a newly formed solar system. If those planets happen to ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...
Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, ...
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Scientists finally find a way to track space junk before it hits people on Earth
Networks of seismometers pick up on vibrations of debris to map their trajectory on Earth.
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