Relative sizes of the newly discovered habitable-zone planets and Earth. Left to right: Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists' renditions). Image credit: ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope imaged for the first time a chaotic and turbulent disk in visible light. It found the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed orbiting a young star with material ...
NASA’s latest measurements show that Earth is reflecting less sunlight back into space than it used to, a subtle shift with outsized consequences for the climate system. As the planet’s surface and ...
The race to compile a sort of catalogue of the planets orbiting distant Suns is intensifying, with the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, for instance, set to spot tens of thousands of such ...