It’s what’s known as a planetary parade, which happens when multiple planets appear to line up in the sky at once ... If it is not twinkling, it’s a planet,” said planetary ...
Physicists at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) are deploying artificial intelligence to sift through gravitational wave data in hopes of uncovering a long-sought class of cosmic objects. intermediate-mass black holes ... Sources . ÖAW.
Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous neighbors, possibly after much of the planet-forming material had been used up.
When we think of ice on Mars, we typically think of the poles, where we can see it visibly through probes and even ground-based telescopes ...Scientists have long hoped to find water closer to the equator, making it more accessible to human explorers.
An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a characteristic pattern in planetary systems.