Using the SPHERE receiver of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Southern Telescope (VLT), astronomers noticed that the asteroid Hygea,…
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In what could be a spooky preview of Earth’s fate, some dead planets are broadcasting radio waves long after their…
Astronomers have released images of a nascent two-planet system being formed around a young star, a bit smaller than the…
The strategy uses a technique called gravitational microlensing, currently used by a Japan-New Zealand collaboration called MOA (Microlensing Observations in…
According to a new proposal from astronomers and professors Avi Loeb and Dan Maoz, signs of life may be awaiting detection…
NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity that beat newcomer sister probe Curiosity to an area containing water-formed clay minerals, has found…
Astronomers have discovered what may be five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, the closest single star beyond our solar system whose…
We have no direct evidence (yet) that there is life on other planets, moons, or in interstellar space. Nevertheless, there…
An ambitious project to catalogue every habitable planet has discovered seven worlds inside the Milky Way that could possibly harbour…
Pairs of stars with separations five hundred times the size of the solar system could be triplets in disguise. New…
An international group of astronomers using the Submillimeter Array and the Combined Array for Millimeter-Wave Astronomy has found evidence of…
Positions of the planets can be used as a perfect clock. Such a clock can mark date in time (in…
Indeed, Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, possesses a lot of ice — 100 billion to 1 trillion tons…
Astronomers have caught a red giant star in the act of devouring one of its planets. It could be a…
European astronomers say that just outside our solar system they’ve found a planet that’s the closest you can get to…
Will we witness true disclosure by ESO this Tuesday, 17th Oct. 2012? That is the buzz in astro-scientist circles today.
If you are a regular visitor around here, you probably know that I follow earth changes and have done so…
Never in history have so many human beings been interested in a particular planet, it seems these days. Not a…