The new moon will see dark skies for the peak of the Orionid meteor shower, while three days will pass in front of the red ...
The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...
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Astronomers confirmed a new "quasi moon" known as 2025 PN7 will be around until at least 2083, giving plenty of time for ...
After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...
In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is ...
Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.
Earth just got a new tag-along in space — a little asteroid named 2025 PN7. NASA confirmed this week that the rock, discovered by the University of Hawaii, is officially a “quasi-moon” — a rare type ...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disk encircling a large exoplanet. The carbon ...
A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?
Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have observed a young exoplanet, discovering clues to the formation ...
“Plus, if you were on its surface, the other planets would look like moons in its sky,” says Néstor Espinoza, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. “Isn’t that ...