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Venus and Earth used to look like 'twin' planets. What happened?
NPR· 23 hours agoBut there are planetary scientists who would tell you to look in the other direction, to a planet...
Astronomers finally detect a rocky planet with an atmosphere
Reuters via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoAstronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere - a...
What Can Early Earth Teach Us About the Search for Life?
Universe Today· 3 days agoEarth is the only life-supporting planet we know of, so it’s tempting to use it as a standard in the...
This diamond exoplanet lost its atmosphere — then it grew another
Space via Yahoo News· 18 hours ago55 Cancri e is a super-Earth planet that appears composed of diamond-like carbon — now, thanks to...
WASP-69b — and its weird tail — help us understand the cosmos
Astronomy Magazine· 14 hours agoLocated 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b offers astrophysicists...
New Evidence Ancient Mars Was More Earth-Like Than Thought – And Maybe Even Habitable
IFLScience· 7 days agoAncient Mars is believed to have been a wet world. It might have had a denser carbon dioxide ...
How 'Earth's twin' Venus lost its water and became a hellish planet
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoNew research may have identified a culprit molecule that caused Venus, often described as Earth's...
A secondary atmosphere on the rocky Exoplanet 55 Cancri e - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoCharacterizing rocky exoplanets is a central endeavor of astronomy, and yet the search for atmospheres on rocky exoplanets has hitherto resulted in either ...
Climate science mission led by University of Washington wins backing from NASA
GeekWire· 1 day agoSTRIVE, which has UW atmospheric scientist Lyatt Jaeglé as its principal investigator, would focus on interactions between the stratosphere and the troposphere. “STRIVE would allow us to see ...
Scientists determine near-Earth asteroid was blasted from moon, leaving crater
Scripps News via AOL· 7 days agoAsphaug said in a press release. "But there it is. So, we turned the problem around and asked...