A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek Space:1999 free-floating planets, As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

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the term given to large gaseous planets that fail to develop into stars. “Our hope with this type of research is to understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in comparison to other ...

Each of the planets, labeled b, c, d, and e, has a mass between 20% and 30% of Earth's, making them among the smallest yet detected using the radial velocity method.