For the first time, astronomers have captured images that show a star consuming one of its planets. The star, named…
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NASA recently announced the discovery of a new, Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star called TOI-700. We are two of the…
People have been exploring the surface of Mars for over 50 years. According to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs,…
Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working…
More than half of the thousands of satellites in orbit are now defunct, and this accumulation of floating space debris…
How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had…
Exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun, are found at distances very far from Earth. For example, the…
On Nov. 15, 2021, Russia destroyed one of its own old satellites using a missile launched from the surface of the Earth,…
In December last year, the media reported an intriguing signal we at the Breakthrough Listen project found in our radio telescope data. Dubbed BLC1,…