Exoplanet
“Unusually Massive” – Astronomers Discover a Planet That Shouldn’t Exist
Science
Penn State researchers have discovered an extraordinarily massive planet orbiting an ultracool dwarf star, challenging existing theories of planet and star formation. ...
Sniffing Out Methane on a Distant World
Science
An artist’s rendering of the warm exoplanet WASP-80 b whose color may appear bluish to human eyes due to the lack of ...
Webb Telescope Rewrites Planet Formation Playbook
Science
NASA’s Spitzer Telescope’s 2008 discovery of a unique protoplanetary disk around SZ Cha, with unusual ultraviolet radiation, was contradicted by the James ...
NASA Unraveling the Mystery of Shrinking Exoplanets
Science
Researchers using data from the Kepler Space Telescope have found that some exoplanets are shrinking due to loss of their atmospheres, likely ...
NASA Telescope Reveals Clues to Elusive ‘Size Gap’ in Planets
Science
Exoplanets pushing their atmospheres away may explain a gap in exoplanet masses, according to a team of researchers that recently studied data ...
The Jurassic-Era Clue That Could Be Key to Finding Habitable Exoplanets
Science
Cornell University astronomers have found that the atmospheric conditions during the dinosaur era on Earth could help us detect signs of life ...
Kepler Reveals a Sizzling System With Seven Super-Earths
Science
Artist’s concept showing two of the seven planets discovered orbiting a Sun-like star. The system, called Kepler-385, was identified using data from ...
