Astronomers have long relied on two main methods to detect exoplanets—the transit method, which looks for dips in a star’s ...
Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...
Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...
This discovery is promising for scientists and NASA, which plans to land astronauts at the south pole on the near side of the ...
The Gaia telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy. Its findings have flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head and have led to ...
When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...
Florian said the planetary parade should be visible throughout Alberta until the end of February, with the last Earth-visible ...
A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...
The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...
The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...
The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for ...