If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind. Most of the gas […]
Category: astronomy
A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star’s death
It’s unclear how the planet avoided its star’s bloated red giant stage. WD 1856 b is the only confirmed case […]
The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth’s first crust
The heat of the Hadean may have come from impacts as well as the interior. Earth is the only planet […]
Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR
Skip to content Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR Walkthrough experience includes visits to stars, exoplanets, and […]
Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect
The second issue was that in some observations, there were no periodic signals at all. Because we have enough archival […]
A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
“I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we’re even going to try this.” The Link spacecraft […]
Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated
Early in the 11th century, a young Benedictine monk named Eilmer jumped from the 150-foot tower of his abbey in […]
“Little red dot” in early Universe is a naked supermassive black hole
These models placed the black hole’s mass at about 50 million times that of the Sun, which is in line […]
JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away
Cloudy with a chance of excessive heat The differences seen here could be throwing off how we study planetary atmospheres. […]
Gravitational lens shows a galaxy just 800 million years post-Big Bang
Early galaxy has elements produced by the Universe’s first supernovae. For decades, astronomers looking through telescopes like Hubble have been […]