... of the same exomoon orbiting at a distance of 20 planetary radii around its host planet was announced. Kepler-1625b ...our own Solar System, if it turns out to be real then it may yield new insights into the development of planetary systems and may ...
... visible light waves, and it allows scientists to peer through dust clouds to see the beginning stages of a blossoming planetary system. But even viewed in the mid-infrared, an evolving central star still remains millions of times brighter than...
... direction, so it further implies that 2015 BZ509 did not originate here but must have formed in a neighbouring planetary system before being captured by Jupiter. Being captured in this way might seem a little dubious, but over 4.5 billion...
... your average comet, as it packed with carbon monoxide (CO) suggesting it is likely to have formed in a cold region of its home planetary system, far from its host star. In the last few years, astronomers have had glimpses of other worlds...
... more water than Earth and has an ocean hundreds of kilometres deep has been identified by a team of astronomers in a planetary system 40 lights years (10.5 parsecs) away. A few years ago, scientists using HARPS (the High Accuracy Radial velocity...
... early-stage research to apply machine learning algorithms – promises to continue to yield significant advances in our understanding of planetary systems around other stars. I’m sure there are more firsts in the data waiting for people to find them...