For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

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A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

My main goal is to bring interactive science to schools,” said Hyseni, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Earth and Planetary ...

The RISTRETTO project, dedicated to observing Proxima b –the closest exoplanet to the Solar System — is reaching a new milestone: several key components of this high-precision spectrograph have been ...

The enigmatic Maya calendar synchronizes all visible planets, thus solving an astronomical puzzle that had remained unsolved ...

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Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium streaming away from ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.

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