When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration showing a rogue planet orbiting a very distant point around the solar system. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva) The next time you think your collecting habit is getting out of control, you can console yourself… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows a comet exiting the solar system after encountering Saturn. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva) Scientists have discovered a comet heading out of the Solar System after a close encounter with Saturn. The comet, dubbed… Read More »
“James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” In The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper offers an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built. The show will premiere on Sunday, June 16 at 8pm ET/PT on CNN. A collision between giant asteroids may have occurred in a neighboring star system called Beta Pictoris in recent… Read More »
“James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” In The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper offers an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built. The show will premiere on Sunday, June 16 at 8pm ET/PT on CNN. A collision between giant asteroids may have occurred in a neighboring star system called Beta Pictoris in recent… Read More »
Star Wars fans will certainly enjoy the binary star systems, nicknamed the “Tatooine” systems, a reference to the planet on which Luke Skywalker stood to gaze at the twin suns in Star Wars: A New Hope. It turns out that some planets in real-life versions of these systems may also be receiving a much more… Read More »
A new catalog of 126 worlds beyond the solar system contains a cornucopia of newly discovered planets; some have extreme and exotic natures, but others could potentially support life as we know it. The catalog’s mix of planets is further evidence of the vast and wild diversity of worlds beyond our cosmic backyard; It even… Read More »
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already proven adept at peering into the past by imaging objects at great distances; But a new breakthrough may have seen the powerful instrument act almost like a scientific crystal ball, peering into Earth’s distant future. Solar system. JWST made its prediction possible by enabling the rare direct… Read More »
Astronomers have discovered a rare system of six young planets and a possible seventh planet dancing around a misbehaving baby star. Not only will this system provide much-needed information about how planets form and develop around a baby star, but its similarity to the solar system may provide astronomers with a snapshot of what our… Read More »
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has seen Beta Pictoris like never before, capturing a never-before-seen structure that gives the young planetary system a dusty cat tail. Located 63 light-years away from us, Beta Pictoris is a star about twice the size of the Sun and eight times brighter; It is surrounded by a disk… Read More »