“Our work presents a clear detection of a disc in which satellites could be forming,” says Myriam Benisty, a researcher at the University of Grenoble, France, and at the University of…
Some exoplanet searches could be missing nearly half of the Earth-sized planets around other stars. New findings from a team using the international Gemini Observatory and the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope…
Peculiar planetary system architecture around three Orion stars explained Not only has the discovery of eoxplanets throughout our galaxy provided a host of new worlds for astronomers to catalogue and…
CfA Scientists Discover Mysterious Spiral Structures around a "Planet Factory" Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) announced today the discovery of a complex…
Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun The discovery of the exoplanet KOI-456.04 orbiting the star Kepler-160 suggests we should more aggressively look…
Texas Astronomer Uses His 25-year-old Hubble Data to Confirm Planet Proxima Centauri c Fritz Benedict used data he collected from the Hubble Space Telescope to confirm the existence of…
âOumuamua Might Be a Giant Interstellar Hydrogen Iceberg It isn't an alien spaceship, but new research suggests the first known interstellar object to grace our solar system could be…
Searching Pulsars for Planets A new study explores whether there are any exoplanets orbiting the well-observed NANOGrav pulsars. Source: aasnova.org/2020/04/27/searching-pulsars-for-planets/
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet Two new separate studies published in Nature today have revealed that our second interstellar visitor, 21/Borisov, packs…
A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and…
New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery | Quanta Magazine By watching for a special kind of flare, astronomers have identified the fingerprints of an Earth-size planet orbiting a…
NASA launches a new planet-hunting telescope using a giant balloon – TechCrunch A new telescope will seek out planets that resemble Earth from a height of around 125,000 feet, using…
Leading astronomer says discovery will open up ‘whole new line of thinking’ Source: www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-mars-life-discovery-space-exomars-rover-chief-scientist-jim-green-a9125076.html
Is Another Interstellar Visitor Headed Our Way? - Sky & Telescope An amateur has discovered a comet that might be the second interstellar visitor after 'Oumuamua — and it's heading…