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Jupiter-sized planets may form in just 1 million years, shocking scientists
As per the study conducted by scientists at Ohio State University, these gas giants could form in just 1 to 2 million years, ...
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From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating Exoplanets
Are we alone in the universe? While no one can say for sure, space scientists know where to start looking—exoplanets. An ...
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Scientists used JWST instruments 'wrong' on purpose to capture direct images of exoplanets
Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...
It Rains Deep Inside Planets – And That Could Rewrite How We Understand Alien Worlds
What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...
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When Was the First Exoplanet Discovered?
So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...
Two New Exoplanets Found Orbiting a Star in Draco Constellation
Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...
The closest potentially Earth-like exoplanet probably can't host life
Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...
Challenging Existing Theories: Jupiter-Like Exoplanets Formed Much Sooner Than We Thought
A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...
Dark matter could make planets spin faster
Dark matter is a confounding concept that teeters on the leading edges of cosmology and physics. We don't know what it is or ...
Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
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Astronomers discover exotic atmosphere on scorching hot exoplanet Cuancoá. 'Like finding a snowball that hasn't melted in a fire'
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...
Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet CO₂ for first time
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...