Astronomers discover what may be the last planets observed by ...

Discovery and exploration of the Solar System - Wikipedia

Ancient astronomers were able to make geometric observations with various instruments. The collection of precise observations in the early modern period and ...

A century of astronomy revealed Earth's place in the universe

The years that followed were a boom time for planet finders. By the end of its nearly 10-year run, Kepler had confirmed almost 2,700 planets and thousands more ...

Astronomers find giant planet around very young star CI Tauri

In contradiction to the long-standing idea that larger planets take longer to form, U.S. astronomers have just announced the discovery of a ...

Earth-size planet found orbiting nearby star that will outlive the sun ...

An Earth-size planet discovered around a nearby star offers astronomers their first chance for exoplanetary geology.

Astronomers Reveal First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of Our ...

“We have images for two black holes — one at the large end and one at the small end of supermassive black holes in the Universe — so we can go a ...

A Distant Planet May Host a Moon That's Spewing a Volcanic Cloud

Now a recent discovery around a Saturn-size planet 635 light-years from Earth offers one of the best potential clues that exomoons orbit ...

Astronomers Find First Earth-like Planet in Habitable Zone - Eso.org

Using the ESO 3.6-m telescope, a team of Swiss, French and Portuguese scientists discovered a super-Earth about 5 times the mass of the Earth that orbits a red ...

Astronomers Find a Strange Lopsided Planet - Universe Today

A wide variety of planet systems have been found from Earth-like possibly habitable planets to great big gas giants like Jupiter. With the new ...

Extrasolar Planets

Swiss astronomers Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered the first exoplanet in 1995. Since then, the number of verified exoplanets has surpassed 200. There ...

Astronomers detect oldest black hole ever observed

The international team, led by the University of Cambridge, used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect the black hole ...

Rare 'exo-Venus' with Earth-like temperature discovered

Most exoplanets are discovered using the transit method, where a planet passes in front of its star from our point of view, causing a dip in the ...

Astronomers Discover Potentially Habitable Planet - Futurism

The larger planet, dubbed TOI-715b, orbits its parent star in just 19 Earth days, some 137 light-years away, the international team led by the ...

Astronomers Find Exoplanet That May Be Covered In Water

The James Webb Space Telescope helped scientists discover an exoplanet that brings exciting news in the search for extraterrestrial life.

How can we see planets thousands of light years away but don't ...

The planet discussed in the article I linked was discovered using a technique known as "microlensing," which requires a star to pass behind ...

Astronomers spotted something perplexing near the beginning of time

Scientists can take the earliest possible observation of the afterglow of the Big Bang, which represents a universe before stars existed. They ...

Scientists discover planet orbiting closest single star to our sun

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star ...

Astronomers find surprising ice world in the habitable zone with ...

... might just have found evidence of ... planet has retained a substantial atmosphere, creating conditions that might support liquid water.

Astronomers discover striking evidence of 'unusual' stellar evolution

Astronomers have found evidence that some stars boast unexpectedly strong surface magnetic fields, a discovery that challenges current models of how they ...

A History of Astrometry – Part I Mapping the Sky From Ancient to Pre ...

In astronomy, the rediscovery of Ptolemy's original texts would eventually lead Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus to revolutionise the view of the cosmos, ...

'Milestone' discovery as JWST confirms atmosphere on an Earth-like ...

Astronomers say that they have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect for the first time an atmosphere surrounding a rocky planet outside the ...