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…
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Experiments on Earth mimicking the rays from a red dwarf star show that cyanobacteria, algae and moss can grow under…
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The JWST’s size and sensitivity enabled it to collect more light from this planet than any previous observatory has obtained.…
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A pair of rocky planets orbiting the star LP 890-9, also known as SPECULOOS 2, seem likely to be in…
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Strange planets nicknamed BEASTies are unlikely to have formed around their stars like most worlds, so they may have been…
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For the first time, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have directly captured an image of an exoplanet from…
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The James Webb Space Telescope has made the first clear detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant…
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Observing the surface of an exoplanet is tricky, but a study analysing data from the Spitzer space telescope suggests it…
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Worlds that hold onto their dense primordial atmospheres of hydrogen and helium may stay warm enough to maintain liquid water…
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