For the First Time, Astronomers See a Baby Planet Still Glowing From Birth
Image of a dusty disk around a young star. Among the multiple concentric rings we see a small…
This Weirdly Brilliant Telescope Design Might Finally Uncover Earth’s Twin
Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional…
Could you survive HD 189733b, the 927°C world that rains razor-sharp glass?
From afar, HD 189733b glimmers like a tranquil jewel, a sapphire-coloured world suspended in the darkness of space.…
JWST Detects Steam on Distant Exoplanets. Could Exotic Water Worlds Rewrite the Search for Life?
Sub-Neptunes may be inhospitable to life as we know it, but their strange water-rich interiors hold secrets about…
Astronomers Spot Growing Protoplanet in Disk Gap around Young Solar Analog
Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in…
Can Dark Matter Turn Giant Planets Into Black Holes?
Exoplanets might hold hidden clues about dark matter. New research suggests these distant worlds could even collapse into…