04 October 2018
Astronomers find compelling evidence for first confirmed exomoon
... 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 ...
11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
... 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...
23 May 2018
First permanent extrasolar asteroid found near Jupiter
... 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...
13 January 2020
New study shows a split Solar System that kickstarted growth of Jupiter
When the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) started pointing its dishes at the disks where planetary systems are born – protoplanetary disks – the stunning, high-resolution images it returned showed a recurring sight; substructures ...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
... 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...
19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
... 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...
