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

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

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

Now, though, a cadre of researchers are working to make interstellar travel a reality, at least to our nearest neighbors. They are coalescing around an approach that could lead to closeup images of a ...

Worlds upon worlds await us in the cosmos and we’re finding more all the time. Before 1992, we weren’t even completely certain planets existed outside of our solar system. Now, astronomers are finding ...

Humanity’s dream of reaching the stars has grown since the 19th century when we first measured the distance to a star, and today that dream feels closer with the discovery of Proxima B, an Earth-like ...

Get ready for the ultimate road trip with no return ticket. Engineers and architects have unveiled a concept for a colossal spacecraft named Chrysalis, designed to be a self-sustaining world on a ...

Ten years ago, on September 28, 2015, the AstroSat was launched by PSLV-C30 (XL) rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota with a mission life of five years. Though the designed mission ...

It was not until the early 1990s that the existence of planets orbiting other stars was confirmed, and now 6.000 are known. This number is likely to grow. Humanity has already found more than 6.000 ...

Globular clusters are gravitationally bound, dense star collections containing tens of thousands to millions of stars, often located in galactic halos. Omega Centauri, the largest known globular ...

On the left is the image with the three stars (transient), and on the right is the same image one hour later, when they had already disappeared. Credit: E. Solano et al. 2024 Historical observations ...