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Giant exoplanet has 2 suns and swirling sand
NASA's Webb space telescope has detected swirling, gritty clouds of silicates and numerous molecules in the atmosphere of a giant exoplanet 40 light-years away.
April 5, 2023
Volcanoes on Venus … Wow! New map here
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have compiled a new global map of the known volcanoes on Venus ... All 85,000 of them.
April 4, 2023
Innermost TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet is hot and airless
NASA's Webb space telescope has found that TRAPPIST-1 b, the innermost planet in the TRAPPIST-1 system, is airless and too hot for life.
April 2, 2023
Icy rain from Saturn’s rings is heating the planet
A new discovery shows an icy rain from Saturn's rings affects the planet's atmosphere. This insight could help lead to the discovery of rings around exoplanets.
March 30, 2023
Brightest gamma-ray burst of ‘all time’
The brightest gamma-ray burst of all time - or at least so far - blasted into the collective consciousness of earthly astronomers on October 9, 2022.
March 30, 2023
Terminator zones and the search for life
A new study shows that exoplanet terminator zones - regions on worlds with permanent day and night sides - might be able to support life.
March 28, 2023
What is a neutron star? How do they form?
A neutron star is born from a supernova explosion. They contain a couple of times the mass of our sun, squeezed into a sphere the size of a city on Earth.
March 28, 2023
Europa’s icy crust rides on warm ocean currents
A new study from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Oxford University shows how ocean currents can affect how fast or slow Europa's icy crust rotates.
March 27, 2023
Was ‘Oumuamua a comet? Avi Loeb responds to new research
A March 22 study suggests that 'Oumuamua, which passed us in 2017, was a comet from another solar system. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb strongly disagrees.
March 24, 2023
200-foot asteroid 2023 DZ2 passed closer than moon
Asteroid 2023 DZ2 safely passed Earth at less than half the distance between the moon and Earth on March 24-25, 2023. More info here.
March 24, 2023
