The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

Robert Earl has a track record of attaching himself to great celebrity. He has an eye for well-known figures who, whatever ...

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Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

Hollywood's biggest night, the Academy Awards, arrives this weekend, but this year there's some monkey business going on.

It orbits a G-type star, like the Sun, at a distance ... the planet’s revolution around the star. Detecting this super-Earth was not easy and the process was iterative. The team analyzed more than ...

If you've got any interest in skygazing, this is your week. A stunning planet parade is now visible in the night sky. A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in ...

calling on the Z-9 chopper — deployed from a nearby People’s Liberation Army Navy warship — to “keep a safe distance.” In a time of both misinformation and too much information ...

During just one night – 28 February – they will be joined by Mercury, a rare seven-planet alignment visible ... alignments can let us probe the distant Universe, namely the alignments of ...

Online chatter and a frenzy of media coverage has tended to make a big deal of allegedly rare "planetary alignments" and "planet parades" gracing our night skies. The hoopla has culminated this ...