A team of astronomers have discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b and is among the lightest exoplanets ever to be imaged from the ground.
European Southern Observatory said astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile believe they have detected an exomoon. Only, there’s one problem: it doesn’t orbit a planet. Instead, it orbits a brown dwarf.
The Hillsborough meteorite is helping NASA scientists uncover new clues about ancient water, the chemical evolution of primitive asteroids, and the ingredients that may have helped make life possible.
The planet, LHS 1140 b, is a super-Earth planet about 48 light-years from us. LHS 1140 b orbits a red dwarf star within the so-called habitable zone.
Using the Yebes 40-m and IRAM 30-m radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar commonly found in raspberries, in the molecular cloud G+0.693-0.027.
NASA's Perseverance rover has reached an impressive new milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon by driving 42.195 kilometers across the Red Planet.
Astronomers using ESA’s Euclid space telescope have discovered 31 ancient quasars from a time when the Universe was just 670 to 800 million years old.
Four nearby white dwarf stars have been discovered hiding in plain sight beside brighter red dwarf companions. Hubble's observations finally revealed the long-hidden stellar remnants, including one just 25 light-years away.
China’s Tianwen-2 probe snapped the picture of the Earth quasi-sattelite Kamo'oalewa, after completing a landmark 1 billion-km journey that began last year. Kamo'oalewa is believed to be a piece of our own Moon.
A new analysis suggests the interstellar comet formed in the cold outer reaches of a protoplanetary disk surrounding a star far older and more metal-poor than our own.
Earth is regularly hit by space rocks we have never found. A large amount of space material hitting Earth comes from unknown, primitive asteroids that do not have representation in our meteorits collection. Micrometerites could be the missing link.
Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that might be a good candidate for habitability.
Using JWST, astronomers have just obtained humanity's first glimpse inside the atmosphere of the giant planet WD 1856b, which orbits a white dwarf – and found it far hotter than anyone expected.
For the first time, researchers say they’ve built a cell entirely from nonliving chemical ingredients that can feed, grow, and replicate.
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries a chemical fingerprint unlike anything in our Solar System, and it may have formed 10 to 12 billion years ago, before our Sun even existed, according to two papers published recently.
