New data may settle dispute about the universe’s true expansion rate.
- Professor of Astrophysics Education, The Open University
Some black holes are isolated in space and therefore near impossible to detect.
Has the Sun entered a stage of old age?
The discovery of a huge planet orbiting a small star challenges our understanding of planet formation.
Kepler-452b is sometimes called ‘Earth 2.0’, but there’s a lot we still don’t know about it.
Mereka tidak menemukan bukti untuk banyak exomoon di sebagian besar sistem itu, tapi Kepler-1625 menunjukkan tanda-tanda cahaya kecil dalam kecerahan yang merupakan tanda sebuah exomoon.
A moon has been spotted in a star system 4000 light years away – but its structure is confusing.
Astronomers in Puerto Rico have picked up signal from a faint star that’s not like anything they’ve seen before.
The increasingly rapid pace of exoplanet discoveries must mean it is only a matter of time until astronomers find another Earth.
Is there another Earth out there? Certainly, there are a few contenders
Simple mathematics suggests that if there are aliens out there, they should have reached us by now. So is it really worthwhile trying to communicate with them?
In the Star Wars universe, everyone’s favourite furry aliens, the Ewoks, famously lived on the “forest moon of Endor”. In scientific terms, the Ewok’s home world would be referred to as an exomoon, which…
Astronomers didn’t know, 20 years ago, whether planets existed around any stars other than the Sun. All that changed in 1995 with the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi. And by the beginning…
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