Scientists May Have Found the First Exomoon Outside Our Solar System: What It Means

Astronomers directly imaged a Jupiter-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf 72 light-years away, making it the strongest candidate yet for the first known exomoon.
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There are already 16,000 satellites in Earth’s orbit. How will we manage the next 100,000?

With tens of thousands more satellites headed for orbit this decade, researchers are testing whether AI and satellite-to-satellite learning can catch failures before they happen.

Newly discovered object is so strange we don’t know what to call it

Newly discovered object is so strange that we don’t know what to call it, astronomers say - Object might be the first moon ever spotted outside of our solar system ...

Scientists may have discovered the first exomoon ever found, but it is unlike anything in our Solar System

Since the first planet beyond our solar system was confirmed in the 1990s, astronomers have gone on to catalogue more than ...
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NASA’s Webb telescope discovers giant planet hiding in one of astronomy’s most famous systems

A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a bright disk of cosmic dust. Webb revealed Beta Pictoris d through atmospheric traces of ...

Astronomers say there isn't a word for this weird new space object

A team of astronomers has found a potential exomoon orbiting a brown dwarf in another star system. - ESO / M. Kornmesser illustration Astronomers are homing in on a distant realm where the lines ...