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Mar. 31, 2022 — An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system's smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth. Their finding, a first, answers the question of ...
Oct. 21, 2022 — An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf -- the most common type of star in the universe -- appears to have no atmosphere at all. This discovery could cause a major shift in the search for life on ...
Sep. 30, 2021 — A new study finds that next-generation telescopes used to see exoplanets could confuse Earth-like planets with other types of planets in the same solar ...
Mar. 7, 2023 — A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system and wipe out life on this planet, according to a recent ...
July 2, 2021 — A new study disputes the prevailing hypothesis on why Mercury has a big core relative to its mantle. For decades, scientists argued that hit-and-run collisions blew away much of Mercury's rocky ...
Mar. 27, 2023 — An international team of researchers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to measure the temperature of the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b. The measurement is based on the planet's ...
Dec. 2, 2021 — The TESS mission has discovered an ultra-short-period planet (USP) that is also super light. The planet is named GJ 367 b, and it orbits its star in just eight hours. The planet is about the size of ...
Feb. 10, 2022 — Astronomers have found evidence of another planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System. This candidate planet is the third detected in the system and the lightest yet ...
Dec. 5, 2022 — Studying an atomic clock on-board a spacecraft inside the orbit of Mercury and very near to the Sun could be the trick to uncovering the nature of dark ...
Mar. 8, 2021 — Vega, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, may play host to a giant planet with average surface temperatures of 5,390 degrees ...
