Simulating in the lab the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system, researchers from the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland successfully created both organic compounds and oxygen, absent of life.
Young low-mass stars flare much more frequently and more energetically than old stars and middle-age stars like our Sun, the findings of the study published in the Astrophysical Journal showed.
The star is just two million years old -- a ‘toddler’ in astronomical terms -- and is surrounded by a huge disc of dust and ice.
The discovery was made using the Dharma Endowment Foundation Telescope (DEFT), a 50-inch telescope located atop Mt Lemmon in southern Arizona, US.
The latest discovery is a result of a five year project called the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS).
Continuing with its innovations, Google has updated the Google Maps which comes as a treat for the stargazers.
Scientists have discovered three massive planets in a binary system that is composed of stellar twins. One star hosts two planets and the other hosts the third. The system represents the smallest-separation binary in
Astronomers have discovered a bizarre ‘alien’ solar system that has planets orbiting its star so tightly that one of them has a year as along as a day on planet Earth.
Data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has enabled scientists to discover a treasure trove of over 100 planets outside the solar system, some of which have the possibility of hosting life.
Washington: In a major find, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered three new Earth-size habitable or "Goldilocks" zones around Sun-like stars. Of the three, two are likely made of rock like our Earth.Of more than
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