Planets/Moons

KyotoU's new Seimei telescope detects enormous 'superflare' on nearby starCredit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Japan -- The cold, dark chaos of space is filled with mystery. Fortunately, the ways in which we can…

Credit: Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place--filled with dark and icy bodies with nicknames like Sedna, Biden and The Goblin, each of which span several hundred miles across.…

Credit: Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Mark A. Garlick Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been achieved with, for the first time, the detection directly from the…

Kyushu University research based on NASA InSight Martian lander seismometer data reveals different sources of different types and frequencies of Martian "microtremors", showing the potential to use such data to image the Martian subsurface…

Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University What started out as a hunt for ice lurking in polar lunar craters turned into an unexpected finding that could help clear some muddy history about the Moon's formation. Team members of…

New observations could challenge previous theories of how the Moon was formed Credit: NASA Apollo 11 Mission Image Life on Earth would not be possible without the Moon; it keeps our planet's axis of rotation stable, which…

The surviving core of a gas giant has been discovered orbiting a distant star by University of Warwick astronomers, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the interior of a planet. Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick …

Credit: © University of Warwick/Mark Garlick The newly discovered exoplanet TOI 849 b offers the unique opportunity to peer inside the interior of a planet and learn about its composition. It orbits around a star about…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Measurements from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of…

CODEX designed to determine age of rocks on Mars, the Moon without having to return samples Credit: Tom Whitaker, SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- June 29, 2020 -- Southwest Research Institute scientists have increased the speed and…

The findings could help us understand the history of other bodies in our solar system Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science The history of our planet has been written, among other things, in the periodic reversal of its…

Credit: Stefan Kraus Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant 'super-Jupiter' planet, demonstrating a technique that could enable breakthroughs in the quest to understand how…

A big step forward in estimating the chemical composition of the Earth's core Credit: Assistant Professor Yoichi Nakajima Using the large synchrotron radiation facility SPring-8 in Japan, a collaboration of researchers from…

International researchers led by University of Göttingen find multiple planet system orbiting Gliese 887 Credit: Mark Garlick The nearest exoplanets to us provide the best opportunities for detailed study, including…

Systematic survey of 104 nearby stars turns up 25 dust disks with evidence of planets Credit: UC Berkeley image by Thomas Esposito Astronomers this month released the largest collection of sharp, detailed images of debris…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center For more than a decade, astronomers have searched for planets orbiting AU Microscopii, a nearby star still surrounded by a disk of debris left over from its formation. Now…

The discovery gives scientists a front seat to the earliest stages of planet formation Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Understanding how planets form is one of the main challenges scientists face when placing our…

Discovery offers unique opportunity to gain insight into how planets form and migrate in a solar system's early days New research published today in Nature reports the discovery of a planet about the size of Neptune orbiting an…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA) Astronomers study stars and planets much younger than the Sun to learn about past events that shaped the Solar System and Earth. Most of these stars are far…

An exoplanet the size of Neptune has been discovered around the young star AU Microscopii, thanks in part to the work of Jonathan Gagné, a former iREx Banting postdoctoral researcher who is now a scientific advisor at the Rio Tinto Alcan…