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Webb telescope documents alien planet's death plunge into a star
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals that planets may spiral into their stars, rather than being swallowed by expanding red ...
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Quite Dramatic End to a Planet Swallowed by its Host Star
In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...
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Webb Directly Observes Exoplanetary CO2 for 1st Time
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide on planets outside of our solar ...
Japan space agency joining NASA telescope project to explore exoplanets far, far away
The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...
Alien Dyson spheres could really exist — but only in this 1 type of star system, new study hints
Is it possible to build a Dyson sphere that isn't catastrophically unstable? New research says yes, but only in one type of ...
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Scientists Have Mapped The Chaotic Weather Systems Of A Planet 900 Light Years Away Using A Massive Telescope
We’ve learned that Mars is the only planet in our solar system that could be habitable, thanks to its temperature and the ...
Remember when Pluto was a planet? Here’s 10 photos NASA took of the dwarf planet
Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...
Astrophysicists Discover That Millions of Interstellar Objects Could Be Hiding in Our Solar System
A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Interstellar material has been found within our solar system, but ...
Breakthrough gravity discovery challenges the existence of dark matter
In the vast universe, galaxies rotate in ways that don’t make sense if only visible matter is considered. For almost a ...
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Earth-Like Planet-Hunting Telescope Should Answer Fundamental Question Once and for All
The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) telescope was one of several proposal that were incorporated into the Habitable ...
James Webb Space Telescope captures first images of Neptune's auroras
Scientists observed and captured the first clear evidence of auroras on Neptune using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...
A Scientist Has an Explosive Plan to Terraform Mars. It's So Wild That It Might Just Work.
One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...