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Astronomers have discovered two gas giant exoplanets forming in a dusty disk around the young star, WISPIT 2. - ESO / C. Lawlor / R. F. van Capelleveen et al. composite image Astronomers are watching the birth of a solar system unfold right before them.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them better classify different TNOs and understand the complex ...
The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET), installed at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Paranal site in Chile, has made its first observations. The telescope will work with ESO's ESPRESSO instrument to study the sun in detail.
A team of scientists at the Southwest Research Institute, using photography commissioned from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, have discovered a previously unknown moon in our solar system that's in a "nearly circular" orbit around Uranus. Just six miles ...
Katelyn Eaman can appreciate the power of the sun better than most. The geology graduate student researches how Mars’ now-barren landscape was carved and transformed by ancient waterways. That water doesn’t exist today because Mars lost the magnetic ...
The celestial object nicknamed “Ammonite” is believed to be a relic from the earliest days of the solar system. Photo courtesy Nature Astronomy Scientists using the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea in Hilo discovered a new celestial object that could ...
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Scientists discover an exoplanet system that is constantly changing on human timescales
TOI-201 is one of the few systems whose changes can be observed by humans in real time.
The Sun, an ever-burning ball of gas at the center of our solar system, has always fascinated people. But now, scientists are seeing it like never before. Thanks to the most powerful solar telescope on Earth, new doors are opening to unlock the Sun’s ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have found a distant celestial body — potentially a dwarf planet — orbiting the sun from more than ...