A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...

NASA’s Hubble and Chandra telescopes have uncovered a bizarre ... A study published in The Astronomical Journal reveals the discovery of Kepler-51e, the fourth planet in the Kepler-51 system ...

Find the best telescopes to unlock the wonders of the night sky and view lunar occultations, celestial conjunctions and planetary parades in January. The best telescope unlocks the wonders of the ...

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Ancient civilizations believed orbits were perfect circles, a reflection of divine creation. It wasn’t until Johannes Kepler, in the early 17th century, that the elliptical nature of planetary orbits ...

Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo flexed his muscles on the penultimate stage of the 2024/25 Tour de Ski with a dominant victory in the men's 20km Skiathlon Classic/Free in Val di Fiemme, Italy on Saturday (4 ...

While Brahe’s geocentrism might be attributed to his Protestant lineage – Protestantism having rejected the heliocentricity extended by Catholic churchmen like Copernicus – Johannes ... to work ...

Scientists are deploying two telescopes to detect high-energy neutrinos, also known as ghost particles, under the Mediterranean Sea. The two telescopes are part of the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino ...

Separately, centuries after German astronomer Johannes Kepler made sketches of sunspots ... made before the advent of telescopes, were dusted off this year when scientists analyzed them to learn ...