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The Solar System Passed Through a Massive Cosmic Wave Millions of Years Ago — And This May Have Cooled Earth
At first glance, the night sky appears still. But in reality, everything moves, our Solar System being no exception. As it ...
Four planets found orbiting a star 6 light-years from Earth
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
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Spiral structure discovered at the edge of our solar system can't be explained
Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...
Webb telescope images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," offer insight into carbon dioxide, NASA says
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly capture images of the planets in the star system HR 8799, which ...
NASA’s Webb telescope peers straight at Saturn-like planets 130 light-years away
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was recently used to capture direct images of four Saturn-like exoplanets in a solar system 130 light-years away.
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Rare meteorites provide a window into the early solar system
New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.
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Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
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Carbon dioxide found in exoplanet atmospheres reveals new details of gas giants’ origins
Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...
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First-ever: Webb captures direct image of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The powerful James Webb Space Telescope is revealing the hidden complexities of exoplanets like never before. For the first ...
Supernova simulations show that low-mass star in binary system J0453+1559 could be a neutron star
In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...
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Carbon dioxide found in exoplanet atmospheres reveals new insights into gas giants’ origins
Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...