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Phoenix Rises: ‘Weird’ New Planet Defies Expectations
SciTechDaily· 22 hours agoPhoenix, an exoplanet defying usual degradation by its nearby red giant, retains a thick atmosphere,...
Planet braves deadly star radiations to avoid being reduced to a rock
Interesting Engineering· 4 days agoThe recently discovered puffy planet is a hot Neptune. Phoenix is around 6.2 times bigger than the...
Twin Moons of Dinkinesh: NASA’s Lucy Unveils a Surprising Discovery
SciTechDaily· 34 minutes agoNASA’s Lucy spacecraft's November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh revealed significant geological features indicating its internal strength and complex history. Images showed a trough, a ridge ...
NASA exoplanet hunter finds 'weird' world surviving a star's relentless bombardment — it's named...
SPACE.com· 4 days agoA strange planet discovered with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has astronomers...
This planet-forming disk shaped like a comet is struggling to survive
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoProplyds, which are ionized protoplanetary disks, struggle to survive in the Orion Nebula as they...
What could aliens look like?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoOr perhaps life would evolve to live underground, Valentina Erastova, a chancellor's fellow of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, told Live...
Phoenix exoplanet’s puffy atmosphere survives red giant star
EarthSky· 9 hours agoAstronomers have discovered a new “hot Neptune” exoplanet, using the TESS space telescope and W.M....
Arrokoth the 'space snowman' probably tastes like sweet soap
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoBut interestingly, spectroscopic techniques revealed the radiation-infused ices also produced...
The 'hole' on Mars making headlines could be crucial to Red Planet exploration
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHere's what that means. First things first, the pit, which is only a few meters across, was actually...
Black hole 'morsels' could finally prove Stephen Hawking's famous theory right
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThose possessing masses of around 20,000 tons would take an estimated...CERN's Large Hadron Collider...