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 ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...
Snyder and Hatch depict a lovely range of holiday moments: on one night, the family gets a flat tire and improvises a candle ...
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 ...
On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...
"It was just a matter of time before we found them." ...
Discovered in 2012, the Higgs boson is vital for understanding mass in particle physics, confirming decades of theoretical ...