Astronomers have found barium floating high in the atmospheres of two sweltering exoplanets, and they don’t know how such a…
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Planets orbiting M-class red dwarf stars have been suggested as some of the most promising places to look for alien…
Read More »Experiments on Earth mimicking the rays from a red dwarf star show that cyanobacteria, algae and moss can grow under…
Read More »The JWST’s size and sensitivity enabled it to collect more light from this planet than any previous observatory has obtained.…
Read More »A pair of rocky planets orbiting the star LP 890-9, also known as SPECULOOS 2, seem likely to be in…
Read More »Strange planets nicknamed BEASTies are unlikely to have formed around their stars like most worlds, so they may have been…
Read More »For the first time, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly captured an image of an exoplanet from…
Read More »The James Webb Space Telescope has made the first clear detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant…
Read More »Observing the surface of an exoplanet is tricky, but a study analysing data from the Spitzer space telescope suggests it…
Read More »Worlds that hold onto their dense primordial atmospheres of hydrogen and helium may stay warm enough to maintain liquid water…
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