Hydrogen pouring from volcanic sources on planets throughout the universe could improve chances of locating life in the cosmos
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NASA needs your help to find Solar System’s Planet 9
Elusive planets may be lurking around the edges of our solar neighbourhood, and astronomers from NASA and UC Berkeley want the public’s help to hunt them down
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Astronomers find new way to search for life on other worlds
A simple chemistry method could vastly enhance how scientists search for signs of life
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Most common ‘outer planets’ probably like Neptune
The study provides the first indication of the types of planets waiting to be found far from a host star
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Astronomers watch the birth of a young planetary system
For the first time we’ve seen how a powerful whirlwind shoots out from a rotating disc of gas and dust surrounding a young star
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NIGHT SKY: Mars, Saturn and Antares line up in the August twilight
Step outside as the stars come out, look southwest, and you’ll see an eye-catching pattern
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Brown dwarfs reveal secrets of alien worlds
Data on these failed stars can be used as a stand-in for contemplating extrasolar worlds
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Dawn gets first look into the interior of Ceres
Scientists have accessed powerful data that allows them to study the dwarf planet’s inner structure
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Milky Way’s hot halo provides details on the making of stars and planets
Hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way has led to new information about structures in our universe
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Small stars found to pack a big X-ray punch for would-be planets
Young stars much less massive than the Sun can unleash a torrent of radiation that can significantly shorten the lifetime of planet-forming discs
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We’ve produced several amazing bookazines on the wonders of space, such as Tour of the Universe and Complete History of the Universe, both of which are detailed and in-depth explorations of our current knowledge of space and exploration. This time, however, we wanted to take all we know about space and condense it to the […]
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ALMA detects planet formation around double star system
Astronomers have taken a new, detailed look at the very early stages of planet formation embedded in a binary star’s protoplanetary disc
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What would happen if a planet crashed into a neutron star?
We take a look at the answer to this intriguing question
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Most Earth-like planets have yet to be born, suggests new research
According to a new theoretical study, when our Solar System was born 4.6 billion years ago, only eight per cent of the potentially habitable worlds that will ever form in the universe existed
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Mysterious ripples found in planet-forming disc around nearby star
Moving features within the dusty disc surrounding young star AU Microscopii have been discovered
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Scientists find a new way to weigh pulsars
Researchers from the University of Southampton have developed a new method for measuring the mass of pulsars