But the planet appears to be a closer relative than most of the hundreds of others discovered so far. Some are huge gas-covered giants with thick atmospheres. Others circle too closely to their stars and are too hot for life. For the first time, we can actually say we now have a ...
A newly discovered comet has excited the astronomical community this week because it appears to have originated from outside the solar system. The object – designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) – was discovered on August 30, 2019, by Gennady Borisov at the MARGO observatory in Nauchnij, Crimea. ...
Both the transit and direct imaging methods have been used to find planets outside of our solar system, though many more have been discovered via the former, thanks to NASA's exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope. NASA'sJames Webb Space Telescope, expected to launch in 2018, will carry ...
Martine named a previously discovered species for Ian Cowie, the Curator at the Northern Territory Herbarium in Palmerston, in 2011. Solanum cowiei, a species from Litchfield National Park, was described in a paper appearing also inPhytoKeys. The scientists hope that the discovery of this latest ...