Astronomers Just Watched Two Planets Smashing Into Each Other 11,000 Light-Years Away
Rendering of the planetary collision astronomers suspect occurred around star Gaia20ehk in 2021. Credit: Andy Tzanidakis Astronomers have…
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…
This Bizarre Star System Is Inside Out, and Astronomers Aren’t Sure How
Astronomers have discovered a star system that’s out of order, with a late bloomer planet that may have…
The 3-Body Problem Just Got an Upgrade—and You Can Thank Einstein
I’ve yet to meet a physicist that didn’t believe in the beauty of the general theory of relativity—Einstein’s…
A second home in space? This planet is amazingly similar to Earth
Around 146 light-years from Earth, a planet could be orbiting an alien star that is more similar to…
Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?
A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference:…
NASA AI Model That Found 370 Exoplanets Now Digs Into TESS Data
Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our Sun, known as exoplanets. More than…
A young progenitor for the most common planetary systems in the Galaxy
Transit observations and analysis We analysed a heterogeneous dataset of light curves from space- and ground-based telescopes (Supplementary…
Astronomers measure mass and distance of free-floating planet
Back to Article List According to a newly released study, scientists have discovered a free-floating planet and, for…
NASA’s Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time
Like a game of cosmic bumper cars, scientists think the early days of our solar system were a…
This ‘Wet Lava Ball’ in Space Somehow Clings to an Atmosphere
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system,…