Around 12,800 years ago, Earth collided with fragments of a disintegrating comet, triggering Younger Dryas climate change; this event created environmental conditions at Abu Hureyra, Syria, that ...

Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have imaged 177-341 W, a proplyd — an externally illuminated protoplanetary disk ...

K2-18 is a red dwarf located approximately 111 light-years away in the constellation of Leo.. Also known as EPIC 201912552, the star hosts two massive exoplanets: K2-18b and K2-18c. First discovered ...

”Our newly-devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by a several billion years, making the Universe 26.7 billion years old, and not 13.7 as previously estimated,” said University of Ottawa’s ...