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A Scorching, Rocky Planet Twice Earth's Size Has a Thick Atmosphere, Scientists Say
US News & World Report· 10 hours agoThe so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among the few rocky planets outside our solar system with a significant atmosphere, wrapped a blanket ...
Exoplanet WASP-69b has a cometlike tail – this unique feature is helping scientists like me learn...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoThe star it orbits is baking and stripping away the planet’s atmosphere, and that escaped atmosphere...
This Earth-like exoplanet is the first confirmed to have an atmosphere
Nature· 1 day ago55 Cancri e is too hot to support life as we know it, but could provide clues about Earth’s...
At last! JWST finds signs of a thick atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet
Astronomy Magazine· 10 hours agoIt took a few attempts, but JWST has finally found strong evidence of an atmosphere around a rocky...
Did the Webb Telescope Find Alien Life on Exoplanet K2-18b? Here's What We Know
SciTechDaily· 22 hours agoThe UC Riverside study, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, may be a disappointment to...
The mystery of how water escaped from Venus might have been solved
Quartz· 10 hours agoAround 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system....
How did water on Venus disappear? Blame this molecule
EarthSky· 13 hours agoWater has been gradually escaping Venus’ atmosphere for billions of years. A new study shows the...
Man drives over 600 miles to capture "magical" rare red northern lights
Newsweek· 1 day agoA mesmerizing video of red auroras in Norway has captivated users on social media. Lorenzo Mirandola...
Venus is losing water faster than previously thought – here’s what that could mean for the early...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBillions of years ago, Venus had as much water as Earth does today. If that water was ever liquid,...
Could alien life be hiding in the rings of Saturn or Jupiter?
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFor a third, rings are disks: in other words, little facsimiles of the kinds of disks that create...