A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...
Compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old sun, the 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau is a stellar baby, making it ideal for ...
How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...
On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...
Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...
Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed ...
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What are dwarf planets—and how many are there?
For centuries since the Sun was declared the center of the solar system in the 16th century, society held the belief that any ...
In 2008, Chicago's budget was in a bad place. The city needed money. One way to raise money was to increase property taxes, but what politician wants to do that? So instead, Mayor Richard M. Daley's ...
Journey beyond the asteroid belt to explore the solar system's majestic giants and mysterious outer reaches. We break down the science of Jupiter's eternal storm, Saturn's iconic rings, and the frozen ...
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