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Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...
The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...
they plan to search for gas giants near other young stars at distances similar to the orbit of the newly discovered exoplanet. The researchers think that HD 135344 Ab might be part of a population of ...
Imagine stepping onto a distant exoplanet, where vast alien oceans stretch beyond the horizon. Based on data from missions ...
Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...
A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...
Lichen from the Mojave Desert has stunned scientists by surviving months of lethal UVC radiation, suggesting life could exist ...
The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) at the University of Sharjah (UoS) organised a ...
Astronomy’s latest trophy planet, TOI-4465 b, is a lumbering gas giant six times heavier than Jupiter. Its existence came to ...
Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...
A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...
Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...