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Rapid-Forming Giants Could Disrupt Spiral Protoplanetary Discs

Nov. 30, 2020 — Giant planets that developed early in a star system's life could solve a mystery of why spiral structures are not observed in young protoplanetary discs, according to a new ...

Stellar Flares Can Lead to Diminishment of a Planet's Habitability

Nov. 9, 2020 — Researchers identified which stars were most likely to host habitable exoplanets based on the calculated erosion rates of the planetary ...

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Water May Be Naturally Occurring on All Rocky Planets

Nov. 9, 2020 — Life is deeply dependent on water, but where does water come from? Based on new research, researchers believe it may emerge in connection with the formation ...

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About Half of Sun-Like Stars Could Host Rocky, Potentially Habitable Planets

Nov. 6, 2020 — According to new research using data from NASA's retired planet-hunting mission, the Kepler space telescope, about half the ...

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Fast-Moving Gas Flowing Away from Young Star Caused by Icy Comet Vaporization

Nov. 30, 2020 — A unique stage of planetary system evolution has been imaged by astronomers, showing fast-moving carbon monoxide gas flowing away from a star system ...

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Where Were Jupiter and Saturn Born?

Oct. 29, 2020 — New work reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter. These findings refine our understanding of the forces that determined our Solar System's unusual ...

New Study Details Atmosphere on 'Hot Neptune' 260 Light Years Away That 'Shouldn't Exist'

Oct. 23, 2020 — Astronomers have crunched data from NASA's TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to portray for the first time the atmosphere of a highly unusual kind of ...

Data Reveals Evidence of Molecular Absorption in the Atmosphere of a Hot Neptune

Oct. 26, 2020 — An international team of scientists recently measured the spectrum of the atmosphere of a rare hot Neptune exoplanet, whose discovery by NASA's ...

Stars and Planets Grow Up Together as Siblings

Oct. 23, 2020 — ALMA shows rings around the still-growing proto-star IRS ...

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Smile, Wave: Some Exoplanets May Be Able to See Us, Too

Oct. 21, 2020 — Three decades after astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that Voyager 1 snap Earth's picture from billions of miles away -- resulting in the iconic Pale Blue Dot photograph - two ...

AI and Photonics Join Forces to Make It Easier to Find 'New Earths'

Oct. 21, 2020 — By combining photonics with artificial intelligence, scientists have developed a sensor that will help decipher the 'twinkle' of stars and allow for Earth-based exploration of planets around distant ...

Ultraviolet Shines Light on Origins of the Solar System

Oct. 20, 2020 — In the search to discover the origins of our solar system, an international team including planetary scientists has compared the composition of the sun to the composition of the most ancient ...

Two Planets Around a Red Dwarf

Oct. 16, 2020 — Astronomers have detected two exoplanets orbiting the star TOI-1266. The telescope thus demonstrates its high precision and takes an important step in the quest of finding potentially habitable ...

Vaporized Metal in the Air of an Exoplanet

Oct. 8, 2020 — Researchers studied the atmosphere of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b. In it, they found a number of gaseous metals. The results are a next step in the search for potentially habitable ...