What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal ...
A small star just over four light-years from Earth has just made a very big statement. In a groundbreaking new study, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have ...
Scientists have discovered what they believe to be a new planet, the closest one ever detected outside our solar system. It is a small, rocky planet not unlike our own, orbiting the sun's closest ...
Astronomers have found nearly 6,000 exoplanets orbiting other stars. But for every confirmed detection, there are countless mere hints, inconclusive observations that could just as well be blips of ...
NASA's very productive James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found compelling evidence for a new planet in the Alpha Centauri star system, our closest stellar neighbor. This potential gas giant, ...
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Which nearby stars around the sun are most likely to host life?
Within a few dozen light years of the Sun, the sky is crowded with stars that could, in principle, host living worlds. I want ...
The detection of a large interstellar object in 2017 named ‘Oumuamua was a landmark discovery. Figuring out where the wayward traveler came from, though, is another challenge entirely, especially ...
A giant planet may be orbiting the nearest Sun-like star to Earth, and the discovery is sparking excitement across the astronomy world. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected ...
The existence of an Earth-sized exoplanet around the closest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri, has been confirmed by an international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of ...
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