New supercomputer simulations tracking the interactions of thousands of dust grains show what the solar system might look like to alien astronomers searching for planets.

GREENBELT, Md., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New supercomputer simulations tracking the interactions of thousands of dust grains show what the solar system might look like to alien astronomers searching for planets.

Astronomers using the twin 10-meter telescopes at the WM Keck Observatory in Hawaii have explored one of the most compact dust disks ever resolved around another star.

The dust-filled disks where new planets may be forming around other stars occasionally take on some difficult-to-understand shapes.

GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is the home of many award-winning scientists, and this year is no different. This month, Climatologist Claire L.