For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

Scientists have confirmed a super-Earth orbiting a nearby sun-like star. The planet ... Advisory Alert: It has come to our attention that certain individuals are representing themselves as ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

Its proximity and potential to harbour life mark a significant milestone in the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our solar ...

Tornados, cyclones and hurricanes wreak havoc on Earth, but scientists have now detected planetary winds on an entirely different scale, far outside ... origins of our own Solar System," says ...

Marcussen illustration Scientists have dubbed the exoplanet, a world well outside our solar system, Gaia-4b. The brown dwarf, not quite a planet or a star, is Gaia-5b. Respectively, they are 244 ...

The Very Large Telescope -- made up of four individual telescopes -- produced the first ever image of an exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system ... America's fifth-largest economy aims ...