Exoplanet

Aging Stars May Be Destroying Close-In Giant Exoplanets, Astronomers Say

Aging Stars May Be Destroying Close-In Giant Exoplanets, Astronomers Say

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At the end of their main sequence lives, stars similar in mass to our Sun will undergo a period of ...

Astronomers Create 3D Temperature Map of Hot-Jupiter WASP-18b

Astronomers Create 3D Temperature Map of Hot-Jupiter WASP-18b

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New map of the city OSA-18bThe hot Jupiter exoplanet, located about 325 light-years from Earth, exhibits an atmosphere with distinct ...

Astronomers Find Three Earth-Sized Exoplanets in Compact Binary System

Astronomers Find Three Earth-Sized Exoplanets in Compact Binary System

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The binary star system TOI-2267 likely contains two warm Earth-sized exoplanets and another Earth-sized candidate, according to the study. new ...

Super-Earth Candidate Found in Habitable Zone of Gliese 251

Super-Earth Candidate Found in Habitable Zone of Gliese 251

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Gliese 251 is an early red dwarf star and the 74th closest star system to the Sun. An artist's impression ...

3I/ATLAS-Like Interstellar Objects Could Kick Start Planet Formation around High-Mass Stars

3I/ATLAS-Like Interstellar Objects Could Kick Start Planet Formation around High-Mass Stars

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Opening 1I/Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS showed that a significant number of interstellar objects inhabit interstellar space. Their ubiquity means that ...

Free-Floating Exoplanet Found Growing at Record Rate

Free-Floating Exoplanet Found Growing at Record Rate

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CHA J11070768-7626326 (CHA 1107-7626 for short), a young isolated exoplanet is 5-10 times higher than the mass of Jupiter, experiences ...