Array would leverage robotic and crewed lunar missions and China-led International Lunar Research Station set to take shape by 2035
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift in cosmic terms - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding of the speed of planetary formation.
LOS ANGELES: More than 5,000 planets have been found to exist beyond the solar system, a milestone for astronomy confirmed by NASA on Monday (March 21).
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): He was the first to discover a planet outside the Solar System but his work was dismissed for a decade before being rightfully recognised with the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.
THE National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (Lapan) has pledged to begin searching for exoplanets and life beyond the solar system in 2021.
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ann): Indonesia's National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (Lapan) has pledged to begin searching for exoplanets and life beyond the solar system in 2021.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have spotted a planet orbiting a star relatively near our solar system that may offer a prime opportunity to study the atmosphere of a rocky Earth-like alien world - the type of research that could aid the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
Researchers in China have completed the concept study for a 6-metre (20-foot) space telescope to examine the atmosphere of nearby Earth-like planets and search for signs of life with unprecedented precision.
Researchers in China have completed the concept study for a 6-metre (20-foot) space telescope to examine the atmosphere of nearby Earth-like planets and search for signs of life with unprecedented precision.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have observed an enormous planet about nine times the mass of Jupiter at a remarkably early stage of formation - describing it as still in the womb - in a discovery that challenges the current understanding of planetary formation.
The James Webb telescope, due to be launched this month, may enable scientist to peer into far away planets that could sustain life like Earth.
The final frontier has rarely seemed closer than this – at least virtually.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Earth-sized planet orbiting a dim star in our galactic neighborhood is offering some of the best evidence to date of volcanism beyond our solar system, with observations suggesting a rugged and rocky world tormented by constant eruptions.
The third and final module arrived at China’s space station at 4.27am on Tuesday, about 13 hours after lift-off from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre in the southern province of Hainan, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said.
LONDON (Reuters) -A selloff of Alphabet Inc shares knocked $100 billion in market value from Google's parent company on Wednesday after its new chatbot shared inaccurate information in a promotional video and a company event failed to dazzle, feeding worries the tech giant is losing ground to rival Microsoft Corp.
(Reuters) - Drawing back the curtain to a photo gallery unlike any other, NASA will soon present the first full-color images from its James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, pausing from political pressures to bask in the glow of the cosmos, on Monday released the debut photo from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope - an image of a galaxy cluster revealing the most detailed glimpse of the early universe ever seen.
GREENBELT, Md. (Reuters) - The powerful James Webb Space Telescope's inaugural batch of images has opened a new chapter of cosmic exploration, but astronomers say the observatory's most consequential discoveries may well be those they have yet to even imagine.
Nasa has successfully sent the James Webb Space Telescope into its intended orbital destination, around 1.5 million KM away from Earth.