Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Just six light-years from the solar system — in cosmic terms ...
Specifically the CfA team looked at 95 planet candidates orbiting 64 red dwarf stars using publically available data obtained by NASA’s star-gazing telescope Kepler. Most of these candidates aren’t ...
A giant planet the size of Saturn orbiting a sun-like star has potentially been identified in our nearest neighbouring stellar system, Alpha Centauri. At just four light years from Earth, Alpha ...
Introduces the solar system and its nine planets. Includes directions for making two models: one showing relative sizes of the planets and the other, their relative distances from the sun.