Three elder sisters of the Sun with planets
An international team led by Prof. Dr. habil. Andrzej Niedzielski, an astronomer from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland), has discovered yet another three extrasolar planets. These planets revolve around the stars that can be called.....»»
Apple TV+ gains 51 Emmy awards, led once more by "Ted Lasso"
The final season of "Ted Lasso" earned Apple TV+ 21 of its 51 Emmy nominations, with nods to "Bad Sisters," and "The Problem with Jon Stewart."The nominations for the 75th annual Emmy Awards have been announced, with Apple TV+ overall earning one few.....»»
An Astrobiologist’s Search for Life in Space—and Meaning on Earth
In Life on Other Planets, Aomawa Shields talks about her hunt for habitable exoplanets as a classically trained actress and one of the few Black women in astronomy......»»
Study reports melting curve of superionic ammonia under icy planetary interior conditions
Icy planets, such as Uranus (U) and Neptune (N), are found in both our solar system and other solar systems across the universe. Nonetheless, these planets, characterized by a thick atmosphere and a mantle made of volatile materials (e.g., hydrogen w.....»»
Study shows the Earth formed from dry, rocky building blocks
Billions of years ago, in the giant disk of dust, gas, and rocky material that orbited our young sun, larger and larger bodies coalesced to eventually give rise to the planets, moons, and asteroids we see today......»»
"Sandwich" discovery offers new explanation for planet formation
Scientists have made a new discovery on how small planets might form. Researchers at the University of Warwick investigated the "birth environment" of planets—areas of gas and dust that swirl around a central star—known as the protoplanetary disk.....»»
5 underrated drama shows you should watch on Netflix
From a thriller about twin sisters to Ryan Murphy's latest hit, these dramas are a bit underrated and deserve to be watched on Netflix......»»
Astronomers puzzled by "planet that shouldn"t exist"
The search for planets outside our solar system—exoplanets—is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy. Over the past few decades, more than 5,000 exoplanets have been detected and astronomers now estimate that on average there is at l.....»»
FTC v. Microsoft: 5 surprising revelations from the court hearing that you need to know
From The Elder Scrolls VI's release window to the failures of cloud gaming, these were some of the biggest revelations to come out of Xbox's FTC trial......»»
Paper suggests there could be captured planets in the Oort cloud
Our solar system has had a chaotic past. Earth and the other planets are now in stable orbits, but while they were forming they experienced drastic location shifts. Jupiter was likely much closer to the sun than it is now, and its shift not only shif.....»»
Can we predict if a system will have giant planets?
Prediction is one of the hallmarks of scientific endeavors. Scientists pride themselves on being able to predict physical realities based on inputs. So it should come as no surprise that a team of scientists at Notre Dame has developed a theory that.....»»
How to see 5 planets line up in the sky on Saturday morning
Wake up early this weekend to catch a celestial sight: Five planets will line up in the sky before sunrise on Saturday......»»
The Elder Scrolls 6 release date speculation and everything we know
The Elder Scrolls 6 is currently being worked on over at Bethesda Game Studios. Here's everything we know so far......»»
Bethesda’s “Starfield Direct” shows off a massive, galactic-scale space RPG
A deep dive on "over 1,000 planets" worth of trademark open world exploration. Enlarge / Engage! (credit: Bethesda) It's been about a year now since we got our first glimpse at Starfield's "No Man's Skyrim" gameplay. Tod.....»»
The curious planets scientists have ogled in 2023, so far
Scientists have made giant leaps honing the techniques for finding worlds outside of Earth's solar system, detecting new ones on the order of hundreds every year. The number of confirmed exoplanets — planets orbiting stars other than the sun &m.....»»
Researchers detect elusive planets with CHEOPS
With the help of the CHEOPS space telescope an international team of European astronomers managed to clearly identify the existence of four new exoplanets. The four mini-Neptunes are smaller and cooler, and more difficult to find than the so-called H.....»»
Synthetic species created without biochemistry operate according to Darwinian evolutionary principles
Imagine the possibility of life forms on other planets that don't resemble any on Earth. What might they look like, and why would they be so different?.....»»
The case of the missing Jupiters: Gas giant planets are a no-show around small red stars
Astronomers have revealed that the smallest and most common kinds of stars in the universe, called red dwarfs, very rarely host big, Jupiter-like planets. This absence of Jupiter analogs could have major impacts on the development of Earth-like plane.....»»
Astronomers discover the last three planets the Kepler telescope observed before going dark
More than 5,000 planets are confirmed to exist beyond our solar system. Over half were discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, a resilient observatory that far outlasted its original planned mission. Over nine and a half years, the spacecraft tr.....»»
One-third of galaxy"s most common planets could be in habitable zone
Our familiar, warm, yellow sun is a relative rarity in the Milky Way. By far the most common stars are considerably smaller and cooler, sporting just half the mass of our sun at most. Billions of planets orbit these common dwarf stars in our galaxy......»»
Experiments shed light on pressure-driven ionization in giant planets and stars
Scientists have conducted laboratory experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) that provide new insights on the complex process of pressure-driven ionization in giant planets and stars. Their research, published today in Nature, un.....»»