Surprise! A Jupiter-like exoplanet with water-ice clouds
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the Jupiter-like exoplanet designated Epsilon Indi Ab. It’s about 12 light-years from…
Horizontal transport as a source of disequilibrium chemistry on the nightside of a hot exoplanet
Showman, A. P., Tan, X. & Parmentier, V. Atmospheric dynamics of hot giant planets and brown dwarfs. Space…
NASA Targets Early September for Roman Space Telescope Launch
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team now is targeting as soon as early September 2026 for launch,…
Webb Telescope Resolves Cosmic Identity Crisis Between Planets and Stars
29 Cygni b is a massive object weighing around 15 times as much as Jupiter and with 150…
NASA Finds Young Stars Dim in X-rays Surprisingly Quickly
Scientists have found that young stellar cousins of our Sun are calming down and dimming more quickly in…
Astronomers discover a strange solar system with two “Earths” 120 light-years away |
The universe is at it again; scientists have been baffled by a discovery that turns all the knowledge…
NASA’s new exoplanet mission shows 1st images to the public
View larger/full image. | This is the first light image from the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS). It…
Bombshell NASA data identifies 45 ‘habitable’ rocky worlds | Science | News
A major new study has pinpointed 45 rocky planets beyond our solar system that could support life, in…
Hydrogen atmospheres keep rogue moons warm for billions of years
A new study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Giulia Roccetti of…
A Tiny Camera In a Cereal Box-Sized Space Telescope Is Searching for Habitable Planets
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) built an ultraviolet camera for NASA’s teeny-tiny SPARCS space telescope, which is about…
Astronomers Watch in Amazement as 2 Planets Smash Into Each Other Around Nearby Star
A seemingly regular, Sun-like star began acting really weird, flickering haphazardly as its light faded in and out.…
How Big Can a Planet Get Without Becoming a Star? JWST Data Solves 20-Year Mystery of Rule Breaking Exoplanets
One way gas giants form is through core accretion, where solid cores gradually grow in a disk by…