In the more than 60 years in which scientists have engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), several ...

Debris disks are structures found around stars that consist of dust and small bodies, similar to the asteroid and Kuiper belts in our Solar System. These disks provide valuable insights into the ...

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

Dr. Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer and director of Citizen Science at the SETI Institute, and Dr. Lauren Sgro, ...

Overall, the astronomers say that the results of the observations of Beta Pictoris with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera ... “Beta Pictoris is the debris disk that has it all: It has a really ...

So what caused the unusual dissipation observed in the circumstellar disk of the secondary star? High-resolution ALMA imaging, combined with optical and infrared data from other telescopes ...

Erika Nesvold, postdoctoral fellow at DTM, will give a talk titled "Exoplanets and Debris Disks: Finding the Needle by Modeling the Haystack" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, September 22, 2016, in the ...

Ph.D. student Matías Suazo’s team at Uppsala University identified seven compelling candidates with infrared excess ... natural phenomena like debris disks from planetary collisions could ...

Despite a long history of successful observations, and even imaging of the cosmic beast by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2022, one crucial piece of the puzzle— mid-infrared observations (Mid-IR ...

Scientists have previously found old stars surrounded by disks of debris, which probably comprise the pulverized remains of small planets or asteroids. What they hadn’t seen was such a disk ...

For the moment, the issue of how long it may take to rebuild is supplanted by the question of how long it will take to remove all the debris. After President Trump toured Pacific Palisades ...