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The auction house Sotheby's is putting up a rock from Mars for sale this month. Listed as NWA 16788, this rock is a meteorite ...
Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...
A recent study has uncovered a dramatic interaction between a planet and its parent star that is reshaping our understanding ...
When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...
Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...
The clingy planet orbits so close to its star, it triggers powerful explosions of radiation that eat away at its atmosphere.
James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...
Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...
How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...