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exoplanet
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Maybe We Shouldn’t Be Calling Out to Aliens After All
The Dark Forest Hypothesis is presented as a solution to the Fermi Paradox, which refers to the apparent…
March 30, 2024
Our survey of the sky is uncovering the secrets of how planets are born
Discs giving birth to new planets, seen by the Very Large Telescope. ESO/C. Ginski, A. Garufi, P.-G. Valegård…
March 27, 2024
Electric Currents in Exoplanet Atmospheres Could Threaten Habitability, Study Finds
At a Glance Astrophysicists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the potential habitability of exoplanets, particularly those near…
March 3, 2024
The Solar System used to have nine planets. Maybe it still does? Here’s your catch-up on space today
Shutterstock Sara Webb, Swinburne University of Technology and Rebecca Allen, Swinburne University of Technology Some of us remember…
January 29, 2024
New Study Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About Stellar “Magnetic Braking”
At a Glance In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists challenged the long-held belief…
January 15, 2024
New Study Challenges Existence of Exomoons Orbiting Distant Planets
At a Glance Scientists have long speculated that planets in distant star systems may have moons similar to…
January 7, 2024
SETI: how we’re searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies
Nasa Owen Johnson, Trinity College Dublin Is there life beyond Earth? The question has turned out to be…
December 22, 2023
Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation
LHS 3154b, a newly discovered massive planet that should be too big to exist. The Pennsylvania State University…
December 14, 2023
The afterglow of an explosive collision between giant planets may have been detected in a far-off star system
A visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. Mark Garlick, Author provided Simon…
November 2, 2023
New Study Reveals Possibility of Alien Life on Exoplanets’ “Twilight Zone”
Astronomers from the University of California Irvine have discovered that exoplanets within a particular “terminator zone” area could…
April 2, 2023