Luke Skywalker's planet orbited two stars. How about brown dwarfs instead? By Will Dunham Reuters Apr 18, 2025 WASHINGTON â€� In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on…
+3 Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet By Will Dunham Reuters Apr 16, 2025 WASHINGTON â€� In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs y…
Astronomers reveal 3D structure of an alien planet's atmosphere By Will Dunham Reuters Feb 19, 2025 WASHINGTON â€� Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar sys…
Was emergence of intelligent life a fluke? By Will Dunham Reuters Feb 14, 2025 WASHINGTON â€� About 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to dominate the…
Progress continues on giant telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert By Rodrigo Gutierrez Reuters Jan 28, 2025 CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile â€� Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in t…
Astronomers detect ferocious jet-stream wind on alien planet By Will Dunham Reuters Jan 21, 2025 In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 mph, but are not the strongest …
Fast-forming exoplanet intrigues astronomers By Will Dunham Reuters Nov 22, 2024 WASHINGTON â€� Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that needed 3 million years to form, quite swift in cosmic…
Small rocky planet detected in orbit about nearby Barnard's star By Will Dunham Reuters Oct 2, 2024 WASHINGTON â€� Barnard's star is a red dwarf star in the constellation of Ophiuchus, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less…
Rotten eggs chemical detected on Jupiter-like alien planet By Will Dunham Reuters Jul 8, 2024 WASHINGTON â€� The planet known as HD 189733b, discovered in 2005, already had a reputation as a rather extreme place, a scorching hot gas giant…
