Enlarge / This artist’s impression shows a close-up view of Proxima d, a planet candidate recently found orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. (credit: ESO/L. Calçada) We’ve now cataloged thousands of planets that orbit distant stars. For most of them, our knowledge is limited to basic statistics: […]
Enlarge / The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is scheduled for launch later this decade and will observe planets and galaxies. (credit: GSFC/SVS) On Thursday, the National Academies of Science released the latest Decadal Survey that the astronomy industry uses to help guide funding decisions over the years between the current survey’s release and […]