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First exposed planetary core discovered
Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)
The exposed core is the same size as Neptune in our solar system. The researchers assume that it is a gas giant that was either stripped of its gaseous atmosphe...
TESS mission discovers massive ice giant
Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)
Now, a new planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, seems to buck this trend. The planet, named TOI-849 b, is the 749th "TESS Ob...
NASA's TESS delivers new insights into an ultrahot world
Jul 01, 2020 (SPX)
"The weirdness factor is high with KELT-9 b," said John Ahlers, an astronomer at Universities Space Research Association in Columbia, Maryland, and NASA's Godda...
First measurement of spin-orbit alignment on planet Beta Pictoris b
Jun 30, 2020 (SPX)
An international team of scientists, led by Professor Stefan Kraus from the University of Exeter, has carried out the measurements for the exoplanet Beta Pictor...
Astronomers measure spin-orbit alignment of a distant super-Jupiter
Jun 29, 2020 (UPI)
The super-Jupiter exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b, has a mass 11 times that of Jupiter and enjoys an orbit around its host star similar to the trajectory Jupiter tak...
Super-Earths discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
Super-Earths are planets which have a mass higher than the Earth's but substantially below those of our local ice giants, Uranus and Neptune. The newly discover...
Beneath the surface of exoplanet water worlds
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
A team of researchers led by Arizona State University (ASU) recently set out to investigate those questions. And since they couldn't travel to distant exoplanet...
'Infant' planet discovered by UH astronomers, Maunakea telescope
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
University of Hawai'i at Manoa astronomers are part of an international team that recently discovered an infant planet around a nearby young star. The discovery...
Young Planets Bite the Dust
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
The images - captured by the 8-meter Gemini South telescope using the Gemini Planet Imager - illustrate the variety of shapes and sizes that stellar systems can...
Space Team Theorizes Rare Exomoon Discovery
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
"Our own solar system contains hundreds of moons. If moons are prolific around other stars, too, it greatly increases the potential places where life might be s...
Neptune-sized planet discovered orbiting young, nearby star
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
There are only two or three known stars that are both nearby and young, and scientists have been searching for planets orbiting them for at least a decade. This...
Discovering an exoplanet the size of Neptune
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
Astrophysicists have been searching for exoplanets in this system, a unique laboratory for studying planetary formation, for more than a decade. The breakthroug...
Breakthrough listen releases list of exotica
Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has been pursued as a serious scientific program, though at times sporadically, for sixty years. In the last...
NASA scientist simulates sunsets on other worlds
Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)
When sunlight - which is made up of all the colors of the rainbow - reaches Uranus's atmosphere, hydrogen, helium and methane absorb the longer-wavelength red p...
Young giant planet offers clues to formation of exotic worlds
Jun 23, 2020 (JPL)
Among the most intriguing of these distant worlds is a class of exoplanets called hot Jupiters. Similar in size to Jupiter, these gas-dominated planets orbit ex...
An experiment in recreating primordial proteins solves a long-standing riddle
Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)
The proteins encoded in a cell's genetic material are the screws, springs and cogs of a living cell - all of its moving parts. But the first proteins, we assume...
New study to search universe for signs of technological civilizations
Jun 22, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers believe that although life appears in many forms, the scientific principles remain the same, and that the technosignatures identifiable on Earth wil...
Are Planets with Oceans Common in the Galaxy? It's Likely, NASA Scientists Find
Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)
"Plumes of water erupt from Europa and Enceladus, so we can tell that these bodies have subsurface oceans beneath their ice shells, and they have energy that dr...
Research sheds new light on intelligent life existing across the galaxy
Jun 16, 2020 (SPX)
A new study led by the University of Nottingham and published in The Astrophysical Journal has taken a new approach to this problem. Using the assumption that i...
Astronomers discover how long-lived Peter Pan discs evolve
Jun 11, 2020 (SPX)
Planet-forming, or protoplanetary, discs are giant discs of gas and dust found circling young stars. The recently discovered Peter Pan discs received their name...
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