Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists. This planet orbits the star within the "Goldilocks zone"—a ...
Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earthlike ...
New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...
Almost all planets in our solar system have moons – why not exoplanets? Astronomers believe they have discovered the first ...
Astronomers have detected an exomoon candidate in orbit around the gas giant exoplanet HD 206893 b. Further studies are ...
An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...
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Scientists pin down the driver of Venus’s extreme winds
Venus spins slowly, yet its upper atmosphere races around the planet in just a few days, driving hurricane‑force winds that have puzzled scientists for decades. Researchers now argue they have ...
As Santa sits at the North Pole anticipating the discovery of life on some far-flung planet he might be somewhat nervously scanning the latest scientific literature to see which exoplanets are hot top ...
A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The ...
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