For now, the future of life on Earth is in human hands. But after the anthropocentric era, the situation starts to get dicey.

Alien Buddy Bench, featuring a friendly alien, is the talk of residents as part of Stratford Street Sculpture's new Share A Chair art exhibition outside Town Hall on Main Street in Stratford, Conn. on ...

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral position in the areas of the areas of extrasolar and solar system planets at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) with Dr. Ian Dobbs-Dixon. Areas ...

As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists couldn't be certain that stars beyond the sun also had planets orbiting them. Since the discovery of the first extra-solar planet ...

The crux of the idea is to use future space- and ground-based telescopes, hopefully as soon as next decade, to take high resolution spectra of water vapor in an extrasolar earth’s atmosphere.

The Planetary Science Institute has selected University ... impact physics, the origin of the Solar System, extra-solar planet formation, dynamics, the rise of life, and other areas of research. They ...

Planets form through domino effect Date: December 13, 2024 Source: National Institutes of Natural Sciences Summary: New radio astronomy observations of a planetary system in the process of forming ...

Worlds will align for a "planetary parade" in January, with four bright and easily visible to the naked eye. But an even ...

Smaller gas giants are less likely to survive in such systems, surrounded by clashing planetary titans. With their lower ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

Compared to the previous observations (left), the new ALMA observations (right) at longer wavelengths can better see into the dust ring and reveal a concentration of dust to the north-west (upper ...