Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

"It's remarkable that directly measuring the interior of planets in the solar system is so ... trained JWST's spectrograph at K2-22, a star discovered by the Kepler spacecraft—as part of its ...

"What's also highly exciting about BD+05 4868 Ab is that it has the brightest host star out of the other disintegrating planets —about 100 times brighter than K2-22—establishing ... what's inside the ...

Every year on February 19 scientists across the world celebrate Copernicus Day. Learn about the man who changed how we view ...

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet ... large sets of data to look for planets around other stars. One such system that has been around for a while is the Lomb-Scargle algorithm ...

In a fractal zeta universe of bifurcated, ripped spacetime, the Millikan experiment, the quantum Hall effect, atmospheric ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...