Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking ...

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' ...

Third-year undergraduate Isabelle “Izzy” Connor and two Ph.D. candidates at other universities have recently won awards to ...

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Michelle Obama dismissed rumors that she and former President Barack Obama are heading toward divorce. While speaking on the "Work in Progress" podcast, the former first lady discussed having the ...

Their latest analysis looked at how a full lack of biosignature signals could still reveal whether life is widespread. In a paper using Bayesian statistics, the team explains that checking around 40 ...

Previous data gathered by NASA's exoplanet hunter TESS (short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) suggest the exoplanet's host star, L 98-59, is more active than previously thought and ...

Tri Astraatmadja, a postdoc with DTM's astronomy group, will present his lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on Mar. 22, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, tea, ...

The exoplanet, L 98-59 c, is a hot, rocky world slightly larger than Earth that orbits a bright, young star about 35 light-years away from us. While the planet itself was discovered back in 2019 ...

The team used a method called Bayesian statistics to figure out how many exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) scientists would need to study in order to make meaningful statements about ...

Dr. Charbonneau has pioneered many of the methods that are now widely used to discover and study these worlds, including the first passage of an exoplanet in front of its star, the first detection of ...

The Swiss university ETH Zurich’s international Large Interferometer for Exoplanets mission would send telescopes to investigate the diversity of other worlds. The so-called LIFE mission would ...