A superconducting kinetic inductance detector improves sensitivity limits needed for observing cold astrophysical objects, ...

A University of Iowa researcher has been awarded funding from NASA to create an interstellar map that could lead to more accurate observations of planets located outside our solar system — known as ...

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A coronal mass ejection from a distant star has been confirmed for the first time, raising questions about how such events ...

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"Astronomers have wanted to spot a coronal mass ejection on another star for decades. We’ve now managed to do this for the ...

Scientists have long assumed that, like rocky planets such as Earth, sub-Neptunes begin with molten magma oceans. Their thick ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

A team of international astronomers, led by Turkish doctoral student Selçuk Yalçınkaya, has unveiled four new exoplanets – ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

Observatory historian Kevin Schindler said since the passing of Percival Lowell, his endowment has been funding the majority ...