While Jupiter may be our planetary guardian angel, protecting us from harm, gas giants in other solar systems might actually wreak havoc on other exoplanets nearby. In our solar system, Jupiter's huge ...
Traditionally, scientists believed that the charge polarity of the magnetosphere at the equator and the poles was the same, ...
A team of planet hunters today announced a discovery that will help researchers better understand planet migration and how planets’ gravitational pulls influence each other. The discovery was ...
Planets orbit their parent stars while separated by enormous distances – in our solar system, planets are like grains of sand in a region the size of a football field. The time that planets take to ...
Astronomers discovered FFPs (free floating planets- rogue planets) more than 20 years ago, using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii. Since then, observers have spotted hundreds rogue ...
Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more top down than bottom up. By Katrina Miller When it comes to making a planet, ...
Scientists are exploring groundbreaking methods to harness Earth and Jupiter as vast observatories for detecting gravitational waves, potentially unveiling cosmic secrets from the dawn of the universe ...
India’s Aditya-L1 probe will arrive in a few days at a patch of space between Earth and the sun, almost a million miles away. The location is remote yet isn’t very lonely. Four active spacecraft are ...
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Dying planet ripped apart by white dwarf baffles scientists
Astronomers have recently observed a planet being torn apart by its “zombie” white dwarf star, a phenomenon that challenges ...
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