Grad student discovers planet orbiting around nearby star, astronomers say
Barber used data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to observe the brightness of stars over time. During the ...
Young planet discovery could provide new insight into planet formation
The detection of a giant planet that transits a very young star is reported in Nature. The findings indicate that this is the ...
The best way to find planet nine might be hundreds of tiny telescopes
Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...
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A New Study Says Maybe Aliens Already Terraformed Other Planets
The other, terraformation, is a more purposeful means of altering a planet's chemical make-up to better suit a nearby civilization looking for a bit more galactic leg room. The study simulated a ...
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New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
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Columbia Professor’s Research Collaboration Shows That Planets Can Form Under Harsh Radiation
A team of astronomers including professor Jane Huang have shown that extreme astrophysical environments can foster new ...
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NASA-Funded Study Examines Tidal Effects on Planet and Moon Interiors
NASA-supported scientists have developed a method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons, which will ...
New study on moons of Uranus raises chance of life
The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...
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NASA’s decades-old findings of Uranus’ extreme magnetosphere was misleading: Study
In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...