An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

When 1I/'Oumuamua was first spotted in 2017, astronomers quickly determined that it came from outside the solar system. But although it was initially classified as a comet from another star system, it ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

In a pair of papers published in 2018 and 2021 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, planetary scientist Steve Desch and his colleague Alan Jackson, both from Arizona State University, ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

What are the physical mechanisms of planetary system formation and evolution? To address this broad question, a team of scientists led by the astronomy department at the University of Geneva decided ...

What will our solar system look like after the Sun dies? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hop | Space ...

The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets ...

A new study challenges the dream of water-rich “Hycean” planets like K2-18b, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...