Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued. Two modern-day explorers explain how.

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of ...

A ROGUE planet was spotted growing at a mind-bending rate of six billion tonnes a SECOND. The lost world doesn’t have a home ...

But look beyond our sun's gravitational pull into the bounds of interstellar space, and you'll find a cosmic landscape absolutely brimming ... which is about seven times the mass of Jupiter and as ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these ...

NASA has announced a new milestone in the hunt for planets around other star systems, known as "exoplanets". Humanity has been looking at the stars for a long time, but the earliest detections of ...

Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

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