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NASA's new planet-hunting telescope, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), just found its first Earth-sized world. Though the Earth-sized planet, and its ...
Seven months after finding its first exoplanet, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found its first Earth-sized planet, as well as a "warm ...
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has discovered its first Earth-size world. HD 21749c is about 89% Earth's diameter and is 53 light-years away.
Over 4000 exoplanets have been discovered since the first one in 1995, but the vast majority of them orbit their stars with relatively short periods of revolution.
Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with Google, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover two more hidden planets in the ...
Astronomers have found a third exoplanet orbiting a binary star system 3,340 light years from Earth, the first, and so far only, multi-planet circumbinary solar ...
The Sun will end its life as a dense, smoldering object called a white dwarf. A new study reports the discovery of one of the first small and intact planetary ...
Astronomers identify the most promising stars for TESS to search for planets just a bit larger than our own and that receive radiation from their star equivalent to ...
NASA's planet-hunting TESS mission has only been surveying the sky since July, but it's already making incredible discoveries.
TESS has found its first Earth-sized exoplanet. Scientists predict that this is the first of many, and they expect to find 10 of them in habitable zones.
An 18-year-old high school senior has won a $250000 prize for calculating the potential for finding more planets outside our solar system using data from ...
The number of planets detected around other stars - or exoplanets - is set to hit the 4000 mark.
The next full Moon is the Flower Moon, the Corn Planting Moon, the Milk Moon, the Pink Moon, the Sprouting Grass Moon and Bak Poya.
A team led by an undergraduate student at the University of Texas, Austin has found two new planets by using artificial intelligence to sift through data from ...
BERKELEY, Calif. — The nearest exoplanet to Earth may have a neighbor. Astronomers have detected a candidate planet circling the star Proxima Centauri, ...
Wandering objects like 'Oumuamua — the first interstellar body ever observed in our own solar system — likely help seed newborn planetary systems, a new ...
Planets come and go. Remember Pluto? It was the bona fide ninth planet from its discovery in 1930 until its controversial demotion to dwarf planet status in 2006 ...
Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun like the planets, but their orbits can bring them within 30 million miles of Earth's orbit.
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the ...
On its final flyby of Saturn's largest moon in 2017, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gathered radar data revealing that the small liquid lakes in Titan's northern ...
Pluto has always been an oddball, but here's why it's no longer considered a planet.
In August of 2016, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced the discovery of an exoplanet in the neighboring system of Proxima ...
In August of 2016, astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced the discovery of an exoplanet in the neighboring system of Proxima ...
The Moon's relentless march across the night sky carries it past Jupiter and Saturn later this week.
The minor planet, currently known as (225088) 2007 OR10, was discovered 12 years ago.
Humanity's great leap into interstellar space — the space between the stars — has begun. Here are 10 things we've learned about going interstellar.
Deep in the heart of alien worlds, crystals form under pressures up to 40 million times more intense than the atmospheric pressure on Earth, and as much as 10 ...
It's been 10 years since the largest unnamed minor planet in our solar system was discovered. Yet it has remained nameless, apart from the identifier 2007 ...
Far beneath the surface of the ocean off the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States – and nearly a quarter-mile below the seafloor – lives a community of ...
Every year the nearly 400 billion trees in the Amazon rain forest and all the creatures that depend on them are drenched in seven feet of rain — four times the ...
Discovering planets that nobody has ever seen before is even harder than it sounds. Space telescopes from NASA and other scientific bodies have gathered an ...
Take light-year leaps across our Milky Way galaxy in search of distant exoplanets.
It's going to be a stellar weekend for sky-watching and egg hunting in the Puget Sound region, according to the National Weather *Service* of Seattle. After a few ...
A SUPER-EARTH could be orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our sun, giving a significant boost in the search for alien life, space scientists have ...
Nibiru is said to orbit the Sun every 3,600 years on a journey, which takes it beyond the fringes of the solar system. No official observations of the planet, ...
Three astronomers who discovered a minor planet more than a decade ago are now asking the public to help them name it.
Brown dwarfs fill the 'gap' between stars and the much smaller planets. But how they originate has yet to be fully explained. Astronomers may now be able to ...
In the coming years, NASA has some bold plans to build on the success of the New Horizons mission. Not only did this spacecraft make history by conducting ...
SUTHERLAND—O'Brien County Conservation will host a “Planet Walk” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, at the Prairie Heritage Center near Sutherland.
The discovery of gas on the red planet divided scientists, but it could be an indication that there are life forms on Mars.
After years of development in the desert north of Los Angeles, a gigantic, six-engined megajet with the wingspan of an American football field flew Saturday ...
The US space agency is working on ambitious plans to fly the drone-type device in the skies above Mars in 2021.
New research shows streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapor.
The first highly-detailed spectra of an extra-solar planet's atmosphere was just released: a worldwide storm of searing-hot iron particles, dust and carbon ...
Star Citizen has announced that it has launched Alpha 3.5 that comes complete with a brand new planet, ArcCorp, to explore. This planet is a bustling hub that is ...
Each year, livestock produces billions of tonnes of excrement. It's starting to poison the natural world. So what is to be dung?
This week, scientists discovered the interstellar origins of a meteor that crashed into Earth in 2014, and DNA was extracted from the bones of 13th-century ...
Giant planets like Uranus and Neptune may contain much less free hydrogen than previously assumed. Researchers from the German Helmholtz-Zentrum ...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft traveled some 4 billion miles to take the first close-up look at a 22-mile-long world in the solar system's icy Kuiper belt beyond ...
This week, scientists shared the first photo of a supermassive black hole, and the eagerly anticipated final results of NASA's Twins Study researching longterm ...
What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft gave scientists the closest-ever look at the mini-moons near Saturn - and new data that helps explain their weird shape and what ...
High above Manhattan, Alicja Kwade's planetary sculpture captures the music of the spheres.
As I explained in a former observing story, the major planets are currently confined to the dawn sky. But planet Mars, now eight months past its memorably close ...
The long search for the elusive first molecule is finally over. Scientists using SOFIA found helium hydride in the planetary nebula NGC 7027.
Three asteroids are headed toward Earth today for a series of close – but perfectly safe – encounters with our home world. Also known as “close-Earth ...
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Scientists have long known that Earth and Mercury have metallic cores. Like Earth, Mercury's outer core is composed of liquid metal, but there have only been ...
No recording can do a live performance of "The Planets" justice; Thursday night at Artis-Naples was the pealing, simmering, thundering proof of it.
Where are all the aliens? According to one theory, intelligent extraterrestrials have already made Earth an "exhibit" in a galactic zoo.
Microbes unearthed from deep in the ocean crust off the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Northwest give scientists a window into ancient organisms that ...
Margaret Kivelson is the new chair of the Space Studies Board (SSB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She succeeds Fiona ...
For the first time ever, humanity has photographed a black hole, shining light on an exotic realm that had long been beyond our ken.
Taking to his website ET Data Base, Warning shared an interesting video showing some mysterious UFO lights hovering in the skies of Beijing, adding that such ...
Hang onto your seats this week, as we are likely to feel a significant jolt of some nature.We begin the week with the sun conjunct Uranus in Taurus. Uranus ...
These are the days of miracles and wonders, as Paul Simon once sang. News of one such marvel took me on a bright spring morning to the paleontology labs of ...
The first major meteor shower since January is set to peak in April, headlining this month's list of top astronomy events to mark on your calendar.
The newly pictured supermassive black hole is a beast with no name, at least not an official one. And what happens next could be cosmically confusing.
THE EASTER weekend could kick off with a major earthquake as a self-proclaimed mystic predicts a huge tremor on Good Friday.
A small, borderline star about the size of Jupiter some 250 light years from Earth has been caught in the act of emitting an enormous superflare, releasing the ...
ALBANY — It was 12:20 a.m. March 2 when a Voorheesville resident was awakened by the sound of the household's German Shepherd barking at the window.
Since its discovery in 2016, planetary scientists have been excited about TRAPPIST-1, a system where seven Earth-sized rocky planets orbit a cool star. Three of ...
Planet Earth has been hit by an 'interstellar object' which travelled here from another star system, two leading astronomers have claimed. Harvard University ...
ARIEL, a mission to make the first large-scale survey of exoplanet atmospheres, has launched a global competition series to find innovative solutions for the ...
The Polish-German artist Alicja Kwade's project at the Metropolitan Museum brings down the heavens and elaborates cosmic truths.
Deep in the ocean off the Pacific Northwest colonies of ancient microbes may hold clues to the evolution of life on our planet — and beyond, scientists say.
CNBC Make It analyzed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to identify 15 high-paying occupations that offer workers the ability to work outside while ...
Dear Disney, I have a question: Just exactly how do Coca-Cola products exist in a galaxy far, far away? Walt Disney Imagineering's Scott Trowbridge announced ...
(AP) — Today is Sunday, April 21, the 111th day of 2019. There are 254 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 21, 1789, John Adams was ...
More than 1,000 climate activists met at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester Thursday night urging Congress to take bold and ambitious action with the Green New ...
They might just be the oldest mystery in the Stargate universe. The Furlings are an advanced species who, long ago, were members of an alliance of four great ...
Of all of the video games in Star Wars history, Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel may be the most memorable. In the rarified air of Star Wars storytelling, ...
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists report.
Star Wars fans can finally take a vacation to a galaxy far, far away. Galaxy's Edge, the newest Disney theme park adventure, is opening in about month in ...
Douglas Preston on the young paleontologist who may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.
Late last year, astronomers announced that they'd found a super-Earth around Barnard's star – one of the closest suns to our own. The discovery of a planet just ...
Venus may technically be our neighbor, but Earth spends the most time close to Mercury.
Musical legend Prince was found dead April 21, 2016.
Scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover two more hidden planets in the data collected by the Kepler space telescope. The technique shows ...
Evidence for Planet Nine continues to mount, as two new studies offer support of its existence, even if NASA and space researchers have yet to find it.
Despite being the very first planet candidate discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope, Kepler-1658b had a rocky road to confirmation. It moved from planet ...
MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager to answer questions about the hunt for exoplanets in Brinson Lecture.
Three newly discovered planets, beyond our solar system, have masses comparable to our own Neptune.
A NASA telescope that will give humans the largest, deepest, clearest picture of the universe since the Hubble Space Telescope could find as many as 1400 ...
From Rappler: Environmental authorities rescued around 129 Palawan hill mynas from a wildlife poacher in Bataraza town in southern Palawan. The birds ...
Just as dust gathers in corners and along bookshelves in our homes, dust piles up in space too. But when the dust settles in the solar system, it's often in rings.
The Kepler space telescope is officially out of fuel and will hunt planets no more, NASA announced.
Our list of the best albums out this week includes Lizzo's long-awaited debut, the rousing, infectious anthems of Johnnyswim, new music from The Tallest Man ...
Astronomers have discovered a new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto with an orbit that supports the presence of an even-farther-out, Super-Earth or ...