Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, hidden by stellar glare and detected indirectly. Astronomers identify them by tracking star wobbles or dips in brightness during ...
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will create enormous cosmic panoramas, helping us answer questions about the evolution of our universe. Astronomers also expect the mission to find thousands ...
On May 10, 2016, NASA announced the discovery of 1,284 more alien planets by is Kepler Space Telescope, a haul that includes nine exoplanets that might be habitable. See the discovery explained in ...
On November 11, Mercury and Earth became perfectly aligned allowing stargazers to watch the planet at the front of the solar system pass along the face of the Sun. While the phenomenon was not visible ...
Earth-bound astronomers use the transit method--measuring the dim in a star's light when a planet passes directly between the star and its observer--to study planets outside of the Solar System. A new ...
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