The Fermi Paradox: Where Are All the Aliens?
At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...
Astronomers listened to the 'music' of flickering stars—and discovered an unexpected feature
The "music" of starquakes—enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many ...
'1 million to 1 billion years': NASA’s TESS telescope is decoding the age secrets of exoplanets
Comparing young and old exoplanets helps astronomers understand how planets form, evolve, and change over time.
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From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating Exoplanets
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
University of Innsbruck12d
ESO milestone achieved: Deep insights into the universe
With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...
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North Carolina vs. Oregon State Women’s Basketball NCAA Tournament First Round Picks, Odds and Prediction – March 22
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. North Carolina guard Reniya Kelly (10) and SMU guard Nya Robertson (3) try to win a loose ball during the ...
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Dark energy findings could rewrite our understanding of the universe and its fate: "Cusp of a major discovery"
Rubin Observatory in Chile. Launched in 2023, the ESA's $1.5 billion Euclid space telescope is equipped with a near-perfect 3-feet 11-inch-wide primary mirror and two instruments: a 600 megapixel ...
Live Science16d
Atacama Telescope reveals earliest-ever 'baby pictures' of the universe: 'We can see right back through cosmic history'
New observations with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile reveal the earliest-ever "baby pictures" of our universe, showing some of the oldest light we can possibly see.
Smithsonian Magazine17d
Astronomers Find Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Neighboring Star, the ‘White Whale’ of Planet Seekers
Despite its proximity, though, it’s too faint to see in the night sky without a telescope or strong binoculars. To find the tiny planets orbiting it, then, astronomers turned to a technique ...
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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...