Astronomers have captured the sharpest-ever images of infant planets forming around a distant ... which block unwanted ...

To see the planets in the sky this week, it’s best to find a spot with minimal light pollution on a clear night ... of the planets against the starry background.” “Around the 10th of ...

but you’ll have to get somewhere where it’s reasonably dark to see all three planets clearly. There’s a small chance if you have a really clear view of the horizon, you could actually see ...

In a display of interstellar teamwork, NASA’s Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes have discovered clear skies and water vapor in the atmosphere of a Neptune-sized planet orbiting a star ...

NASA’s contribution, an instrument called CASE, will let astronomers tell whether these exoplanets’ skies are cloudy, hazy or clear. The results will help astronomers understand how planets ...

Transparent aluminium ... “That is the sort of matter you would get towards the centre of a giant planet,” says Wark. The team hopes to study the properties of this hot, dense matter using ...

Astronomers say they’ve discovered clear skies and water vapor on a Neptune-sized exoplanet named HAT-P-11b -- which, at roughly four times the Earth’s radius, is the smallest planet yet known ...