Active Galactic Nucleus Tori: Potential Birthplace to Millions of Planets
Transition between different accretion regimes as shown by the shading and top labels. From left to right the…
This Alien Planet Has Rock Clouds That Vaporize Before Sunset
Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over…
Webb Telescope Detects Cloudy Mornings And Clear Nights On Alien World
Artistic representation of WASP-94A b, a gas giant in the Microscopium constellation. Clouds build as air flows over…
New ultra-black coating could improve the search for life on exoplanets
The latest ultra-black coating combines extreme thinness with durability. It has an extremely high light absorption rate, which…
Webb Space Telescope Reveals Rare Planet Pair That Shouldn’t Exist
The planetary odd couple of a mini-Neptune and hot Jupiter probably formed out beyond its star’s “frostline,” in…
A Single Power Law For The TRAPPIST-1 Flare Distribution Across Four Orders Of Magnitude In Energy
Cumulative flare-frequency distribution of TRAPPIST-1. The cumulative occurrence rate ν(≥ ETESS) is shown as a function of TESS-band…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Reveals a Dark Airless Super-Earth That Looks Like Mercury
A blazing exoplanet has been revealed as a dark, airless world with a surface unlike Earth’s. Instead of…
Astronomers Spot Dozens of Potential ‘Tatooine’ Worlds
The existence of circumbinary planets — exoplanets that orbit binary stars — has only been firmly established over…
Horizontal Transport As A Source Of Disequilibrium Chemistry On The Nightside Of A Hot Exoplanet
NGTS-10 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 2.162 Jupiters, it…
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…
The Influences of Hydrogen-Silicate-Iron Miscibility on the Demographics of Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths
Status Report astro-ph.EP May 1, 2026 Filed under astro-ph.EP, astrochemistry, astrogeology, atmospheric escape, exoplanet, hydrogen-rich atmosphere, metallic core,…
Asteroseismic Modelling Of Main-sequence Solar-like Stars And Kepler Exoplanet Host Stars With The FICO Procedure I. Catalogue Of Fundamental Stellar Properties
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of the stellar catalogue. The Sun is shown as a reference and the letters stand for…