The planet Neptune, as seen by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe during a flyby in August of 1989. In astronomy, 180 years is a very long time—maybe not for the goings-on in the universe but certainly for our ...
Scientific discovery is a funny thing. Sometimes it occurs quite accidentally, sometimes after a conscious search. A perfect example of the latter is the discovery of the planet Neptune. Astronomers ...
Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ...
In astronomy, 180 years is a very long time—maybe not for the goings-on in the universe but certainly for our understanding of it. To be fair, we still don’t. But our understanding of our sun’s family ...