This composite radio and optical image provided by researchers in May 2024 shows IRAS 23077, center, a planet-forming disk, ...
In the vast expanse of the cosmos, countless elements and compounds converge in cosmic clouds, offering the basic building blocks needed for the formation of planets. Now, astronomers have stumbled ...
Astronomers have discovered WASP-193b, an extraordinarily light planet orbiting a distant star in our galaxy. It outstrips ...
After its "birth" in the Big Bang, the universe consisted mainly of hydrogen and a few helium atoms. These are the lightest ...
Generating life out of an organic soup is a complicated business. You need a whole bunch of ingredients, all together in the same place, in the right conditions. While the precise conditions might be ...
Around a star in our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have discovered an extremely low-density planet that is as light as cotton ...
A fern from a Pacific island carries 50 times as much DNA as humans do. Tmesipteris oblanceolata, a fern growing in a forest on an island east of Australia. “It doesn’t catch the eye,” said ...
ASTRONOMERS have discovered a potentially habitable Earth-like exoplanet, Gliese 12b, situated 40 light years away, according to a recent study. International teams using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet ...
Using ESA's Gaia satellite and the MMT Observatory, astronomers have investigated a peculiar stream of stars in our galaxy named Theia 456. Results of the study, published May 21 on the pre-print ...
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has revealed some of the saddest parts of our predominantly dark universe. As the agency explains in a press release, its dark matter-hunting ...
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