The Utility-Interactive Hybrid Power Plant under study is in Iganmu, Lagos, Nigeria. Its idea was conceived as part of the renovation of the National Arts Theatre, Nigeria. The National Theatre, ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that not just one, but four tiny planets are circling around Barnard's Star, the ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...

Artist's rendering of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794.Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) The ...

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

Uncover the Webb Telescope's fascinating discovery of a 34-million-year-old planet-forming disk around a red star.

Astronomers have captured the sharpest-ever images of infant planets forming around a distant star, revealing unexpected ...

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...

Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets tend to have more circular orbits. This split coincides with several other ...