Photochemistry and climate modeling of Earth-like exoplanets
Examples of potential Earth-like exoplanets. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech What role can the relationship between oxygen (O2) and ozone (O3) in exoplanet...
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‘Soot planets’ might be more common than ‘water worlds’
Artist's depiction of a "soot planet" and its formation process. Credit: Ari Gea/SayoStudio According to astronomers, water worlds, though admittedly...
What technosignatures would interstellar objects have?
Artist's depiction of an ISO. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornmesser The recent discovery of the third known interstellar object...
Radio emission observations reveal delayed outflow from a tidal disruption event
Radio light curves of WTP 14adeqka in selected frequencies from archival and targeted VLA observations (main panel) along with the...
Habitable planet potential increases in the outer galaxy
Longstanding model of the galactic habitable zone, which is estimated to exist between 7-9 kiloparsecs from the center of the...
JWST reveals 3I/ATLAS’s coma is largely carbon dioxide
Hubble image of 3I/ATLAS. Credit: NASA/ESA All (or at least most) astronomical eyes are on 3I/ATLAS, our most recent interstellar...
Solar Orbiter traces superfast electrons back to sun
Solar Orbiter observed more than 300 bursts of 'Solar Energetic Electrons' between November 2020 and December 2022. For the first...
Finding ‘Earth 2.0’ may be easier using a new telescope shape
Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional infrared space...
Astronomers discover one of the most massive binary stars in the galaxy
NGC 3603 is a starburst region located 22,000 light years away from the Sun, it's the closest region of this...
Webb captures dusty wisps round a planet-forming disk
Webb's view of planet-forming disc IRAS 04302+2247. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Villenave et al. For this new Picture...