Discovery of a second-generation planet candidate accreting onto a white dwarf
Spectroscopic observations HS 0209+0832 was observed using HST/STIS in the FUV on 10 January 19994. Two exposures of…
Astronomers Confirm Discovery of the Youngest Known Exoplanet Ever
How are planets born, and how do they grow? This is an essential question in astronomy, one that…
Volatile depletion in rocky planets as a chemical fingerprint of hybrid accretion
Albarède, F. Volatile accretion history of the terrestrial planets and dynamic implications. Nature 461, 1227–1233 (2009). Article ADS …
Scientists Detect Radio Signals from an Exoplanet for the First Time in History
Approximately 63 light-years from Earth lies a planetary system so young that its less than 1 percent as…
Astronomers Finally Pick Up Radio Signals From a Planet Beyond Our Solar System
For the first time, astronomers have detected radio signals from a planet beyond our solar system, according to…
Newfound ‘Baby’ Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World
Astronomers have confirmed a world that’s less than a million years old as the youngest known planet, using…
Giant mega-Earth is 23 times more massive than Earth
View larger. | Artist’s concept of a giant mega-Earth. The newly discovered mega-Earth GJ 523b is 23.5 times…
9 Things to Know About NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Roman joins an international cohort of teamworking telescopes. Roman will work in tandem with many other NASA-led and…
Could there be life in helium atmospheres on exoplanets?
View larger. | Artist’s concept of an exoplanet with a helium-dominated atmosphere. A new study suggests that there…
10 Things To Know About NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Before Its Aug. 30 Launch
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy. If all goes to plan,…
NASA’s Roman Telescope to Carry 1.35 Million Names to Deep Space
On July 27, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a memory card containing 1,350,144 names…
Astronomers just found the first atmosphere on a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone
The exoplanet LHS 1140 b looms in the foreground as its host star, the red dwarf LHS 1140,…