All eyes are on Comet 3I/Atlas as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...

A decades-old pursuit to explore for life beyond Earth has received new impetus with a recent discovery that promises to simplify and make routine the task of searching for life on distant planets ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the ...

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress ...

Observational Limits on Terrestrial-Sized Inner Planets Around the CM Draconis System Using the Photometric Method With a Matched-Filter Algorithm The Astrophysical Journal535, 338-349. Jon Jenkins, ...

The solar-terrestrial environment : an introduction to geospace--the science of the terrestrial upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere by Hargreaves, J. K. (John Keith), 1930- Publication ...

Extra-solar terrestrial planets, on the other hand, are those terrestrial planets that lie outside the solar system and are giant and easily detectable. Scientists believe that there could be billions ...

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A newly discovered object called 2017 OF201, likely a dwarf planet, travels in an extremely wide elliptical orbit (yellow), a new study suggests. The orbit of the dwarf planets Sedna and Pluto are ...

Those unseen planets on wider orbits can still make their presence felt, however, in the form of TTVs. Ordinarily, transits are as regular as clockwork, but in some cases astronomers have noticed ...

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life beyond Earth.