Seven planets will parade across Michigan's sky. How to see them in February
The four-planet lineup that began in January concludes by mid- to late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the ...
Yes, the odds of an asteroid striking Earth have doubled. No, you don't need to worry
At the end of 2024, astronomers detected an asteroid in the night sky. It was given the designation Y, since it was ...
Gaia Just Found Two Massive Objects That Shouldn’t Exist – And Astronomers Are Stunned
Scientists using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission have made a groundbreaking discovery: a massive exoplanet ...
Why the Odds of an Asteroid Striking Earth in 2032 Keep Going Up (and Down)
NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.
Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
High-precision spectrograph confirms massive exoplanet orbiting a low-mass star
With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...
An Asteroid Has a 1-in-63 Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032—Here’s What That Means
A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...
Newly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers’ full attention
The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.
Astronomers Orbiting TRAPPIST-1 Star Could Be Peering Back At Earth
A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...
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Newly discovered super-Earth orbits in and out of its star's habitable zone. Could life survive its extreme climate?
A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.