Astronomers Find Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Just 25 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet about twice Earth’s size just 25 light-years away, orbiting in the habitable…
Webb Sees Jupiter-Size Exoplanet Being Roasted by Its Star
HD 80606b has one of the most extreme orbits of any known exoplanet and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb…
James Webb Space Telescope Made a Salty Discovery in This Unusual Exoplanet’s Skies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed the colorful secret of the Pink Planet, the coldest object…
James Webb reveals a hellish exoplanet where dawn and dusk have wildly different chemistry
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations suggest that the two day-night boundary zones on the gas exoplanet WASP-121…
COUNTESS I: A Uniformly Vetted Catalog of Known and New Transiting Exoplanets in the TESS Northern Continuous Viewing Zone
The distribution of planetary radius and orbital period of TOIs and new false positives and planet candidates. COUNTESS…
Jupiter Accelerates Electrons to Near-Light Speed, Offering Clues to Cosmic Ray Origins
The giant planet’s bow shock isn’t just deflecting the solar wind, it’s acting as a powerful particle accelerator,…
Astronomers Detect Clearest Signs Yet of Magnetic Fields on Extrasolar Planets
By tracking fierce winds racing through the atmospheres of seven ultra-hot Jupiters, astronomers have uncovered the strongest evidence…
Red Dwarf Stars Detected ‘Eating’ Earth-like Planets
This artist’s impression shows two Earth-sized worlds passing in front of their parent red dwarf star in the…
New Findings About Exoplanets Challenge Theories Of Planet Formation
Super-Earths and sub-Neptunes – Grok via Astrobiology.com Astronomers estimate there is at least one planet for every star…
Why Most Alien Worlds May Be Too Dry for Life
This image of Venus taken by NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft (left) is paired with an artist’s depiction of…
Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Unexpected Ice Clouds on a Jupiter-Like World
Artist’s impression of the planet Epsilon Indi Ab, with water clouds atop its ammonia-dominated atmosphere. Credit: E. C.…
Between Eternal Night And Day, The Faces Of Two Cousins Of The Earth
This artist’s impression displays TRAPPIST-1 and its planets reflected in a surface. The potential for water on each…