But in reality, it may be the beginning of a new phase of life for all the objects living in the solar system. When stars ...

Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on how life is on Earth? Couldn’t there be totally different kinds of life on other planets? – Henry, age 13, Somerville ...

This is a guide to Vera Rubin, the astronomer whose work studying galaxies confirmed the existence of dark matter.

The indeterminate nature of the team's results means that JWST is far from finished with TRAPPIST-1e. The researchers hope to ...

Ninth Astronomer Royal The Life of Frank Watson Dyson. By Margaret Wilson. (Published for the Dyson Family.) Pp. xvi + 294 + 14 plates. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd., 1951.) 25 s. net.

Phosphorus is an essential element for life as we know it. But how it arrived on the early Earth is something of a mystery. Astronomers have now traced the journey of phosphorus from star-forming ...

Dr. Gregory Feiden, a University of North Georgia (UNG) professor of astronomy, and his research group have spent the past ...

Astronomers Find Life on EarthImage: An artist’s depiction of our world when the Earthshine measurements were taken, enhanced to show the “red edge” from vegetation. A distant astronomer on ...

I AM very grateful to Prof. F. J. M. Stratton for his appreciative review of my book, “Ninth Astronomer Royal” 1, but I do not understand his saying that I have ascribed Einstein's special ...