A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

Modern astronomers now have an advanced understanding of many of the objects in the night sky, and have even determined that ...

Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? Researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the planets, but rather the ...

Researchers suggest Alpha Centauri may be the origin of millions of interstellar objects now in our solar system, some possibly even reaching Earth, though harmlessly, highlighting the interconnected ...

Owners would face costs of $7700 for an average solar panel system of up to 8kW ... “Labor has already adopted our home battery plan. I hope they adopt our renters’ right to solar too.” ...

As we attempt to become a multi-planet species recent research has mapped a “interstellar tunnel” from our solar system pointing toward the constellation Centaurus. That is direction in which ...

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Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there ...

In fact, the third portion of the message is the chemical formulae of the molecules that make DNA, followed by a graphic recreation of the double helix, the structure on which all our genetics are ...