'Out of science fiction': First 3D observations of an exoplanet's atmosphere reveal a unique climate
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT),
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
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Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years laterThe controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.
Aimed at the nearby star PDS 70, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching newborn planets take shape before our eyes in ...
Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...
This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different ... to figure out how the ...
To better understand why the planets have variable compositions ... to the formation of the gas and ice giants in the outer solar system. This first-order model of planetary growth in the ...
For the rest of the month, observers will be treated to a planetary parade featuring appearances from every single one of the non-Earth planets in the solar system. In less scientific spaces ...
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