Fiery Hot Lava Planet Weather Forecast: Supersonic Winds and Rocky Rains
‘Rocky’ weather could change the surface and atmosphere over time on exoplanet K2-141b. Among the most extreme planets discovered beyond the edges of our solar…
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Astronomers Discover Activity on Distant Centaur Planetary Object
Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar system. They sometimes have comet-like features such as tails…
First Ultra Hot Neptune – LTT 9779b – Is One of Nature’s Improbable Planets
International team including University of Warwick astronomers discovers a new class of planet, the Ultra Hot Neptune The planet was found in the Neptunian Desert,…
Rogue Planet About the Size of Earth Discovered in the Milky Way
Our Galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets, gravitationally unbound to any star. An international team of scientists, led by Polish astronomers, has announced the…
Highly Unusual “Hot Neptune” Exoplanet 260 Light Years Away That “Shouldn’t Exist”
A team led by an astronomer from the University of Kansas has crunched data from NASA’s TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to portray for the…
VLT GRAVITY: First Direct Observation of Exoplanet β Pictoris C
Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the first direct confirmation of an exoplanet discovered by radial-velocity. As…
Two Planets Around a Red Dwarf: A “Sub-Neptune” and a “Super-Earth”
The “SAINT-EX” Observatory, led by scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR PlanetS of the University of Bern and the University of…
Vaporized Metal in the Air of an Ultra-Hot Exoplanet
An international team of researchers led by the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS of the University of Bern and the University of Geneva…
Hunt the Skies for New Worlds Beyond Our Solar System From Home With NASA’s Planet Patrol
Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the…
Extreme Alien World Revealed by ESA’s Exoplanet Observer
ESA’s new exoplanet mission, Cheops, has found a nearby planetary system to contain one of the hottest and most extreme extra-solar planets known to date:…
One of the Most Extreme Planets in the Universe Analyzed With CHEOPS Space Telescope
Eight months after the space telescope CHEOPS started its journey into space, the first scientific publication using data from CHEOPS has been issued. CHEOPS is…
Alignment of Astronomy and Mathematics: Earth-Sized “Pi Planet” With a 3.14-day Orbit Discovered
The rocky world, with its baking-hot surface, is likely not habitable. In a delightful alignment of astronomy and mathematics, scientists at MIT and elsewhere have…
Stellar Phosphorus Guides Search for Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
Stellar chemical compositions used as proxy for potentially habitable systems. A Southwest Research Institute scientist has identified stellar phosphorus as a probable marker in narrowing…
A White Dwarf’s Surprise Planetary Companion: First-of-Its-Kind Exoplanet Detected Around Dead Star
For the first time, an intact, giant exoplanet has been discovered orbiting close to a white dwarf star. This discovery shows that it is possible…
Carbon-Rich Exoplanets May Be Made of Diamonds – “Unlike Anything in Our Solar System”
As missions like NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, TESS, and Kepler continue to provide insights into the properties of exoplanets (planets around other stars), scientists are…
50 New Planets Confirmed in Machine Learning First – AI Distinguishes Between Real and “Fake” Planets
New machine learning algorithm designed by astronomers and computer scientists from University of Warwick confirms new exoplanets in telescope data Sky surveys find thousands of…
Surprising Number of Exoplanets Could Host Life – Some Stars Could Have As Many as 7 Habitable Planets in Orbit
Our solar system has one habitable planet — Earth. A new study shows other stars could have as many as seven Earth-like planets in the…
New Research Illuminates Fates of Distant Planetary Atmospheres
Researchers simulate thousands of worlds to see what happens to planets with hydrogen atmospheres. When telescopes became powerful enough to find planets orbiting distant stars,…