It may sound like science fiction, but for distant planets it could be a reality. Scientists believe that deep within the atmospheres of these ice giants are gases that are different from those ...

Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using advanced technology, these are the smallest exoplanets detected via the ...

In Europe, researchers from the Swiss University of Bern and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS developed a machine learning model that identifies planetary systems with ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there ...

Research published in August 2024 finally confirmed the presence of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, dubbed Barnard’s Star b or Barnard b for short. And now, three additional planets have ...

The search for Earth-like exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than our sun—is a central topic in today's planetary research, because extraterrestrial life is most likely to be found there ...

A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. “The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers long,” says Marc Hon, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for ...

There would be no “Imperial March” from “Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back” without “Mars” from Gustav Holst’s iconic work “The Planets.” “The Planets” has been capturing ...

They’ve been observed throughout the solar system, on every planet and moon that has enough of an atmosphere—from the roasting skies of Venus to the frigid poles of remote Uranus and Neptune.

This approach could ultimately provide answers to some heavily debated topics, such as the existence of a "hot Neptune desert," which refers to the strange scarcity of Neptune-size planets in ...

Languages: English. Astronomers have discovered a doomed, disintegrating planet with a comet-like tail that is shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material each time it orbits its star.

While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, planets with wider paths can be difficult to ... Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at ...