Dying old stars destroy their planets, new research shows
View larger. | Artist’s concept of a dying star engulfing a planet. A new study from researchers at…
James Webb Mapped the Chaotic Weather of a Planet Drifting Alone Through Space and It’s Even Wilder Than Jupiter
Artist’s impression of SIMP 0136. Credit: Anastasiia Nahurna. Drifting alone through space, about 20 light-years away, is a…
Ingredients for finding the origins of life
Our approach is not simply to look for life or extraterrestrials. It is a more global process with…
NASA confirms over 5,000 exoplanets
NASA announced a scientific high point as more than 5,000 planets are confirmed to exist beyond the solar…
Astronomers uncover Earth-sized planets in a compact binary system
When the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) scanned a faint red-dwarf pair in 2019, astronomers noticed periodic dips…
Super-Earth 18 light-years away sparks hope for life in space
View larger. | Artist’s concept of GJ 251 c, a potentially habitable world, a super-Earth type exoplanet only…
Horizontal and vertical exoplanet thermal structure from a JWST spectroscopic eclipse map
We applied two complementary spectroscopic eclipse mapping methods to the data: Eigenspectra7 and ThERESA29. We used two methods…
Auroras on rogue planet in a new alien weather report
Artist’s concept of auroras on rogue planet SIMP 0136. The auroras are near the north pole, similar to…
A Soft Collision in the Early Solar System May Explain Mercury’s Giant Metal Heart
In the crowded early Solar System, young planets frequently collided and reshaped each other. But Mercury stood out.…
Discovery Alert: ‘Baby’ Planet Photographed in a Ring around a Star for the First Time!
WISPIT 2b Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of…