Planets
Solar shield tied to asteroid proposed as climate change solution
Tethered sun shield could allow cool the Earth.
New image offers clues on massive planet birth
A spectacular new image released today by the European Southern Observatory gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Using...
There is still a role for retired stars in planet formation
Old stars roaming through new star-forming regions could be responsible for a radioactive heat source.
A stagnant jet stream is fueling intense heat all over the world
A stagnant jet stream increases global warming.
Astronomers discovered sibling of a planet orbiting a distant star
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have found the possible ‘sibling’ of a planet orbiting a distant star. The team has detected...
Webb discovers dust reservoirs in two supernovae
NASA James Webb space telescope reveals a dust source in early galaxies,
ALMA explores the mysteries of planet formation more thoroughly
The disks around protostars are different from more-evolved proto-planetary disks.
Astronomers discovered a death-defying planet
The star would have inflated up to 1.5 times the planet’s orbital distance.
Earth was formed faster than we thought
This makes the chance of other habitable planets in the Universe more likely.
Astronomers observed the longest tails of gas yet escaping a planet
The planet losing its atmosphere.
Multiple rock-forming elements detected in the scorching exoplanet’s atmosphere
Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, have detected multiple rock-forming elements in the...
Astronomers identified a new Tatooine-like multi-planetary system
The second-ever discovery of a multiplanetary circumbinary system.