About 730 light years away, around a star that closely resembles our Sun, astronomers have found a really strange exoplanet. It is only slightly smaller than Neptune, which could indicate a gaseous planet … but it is more than twice as massive as Neptune, with a density comparable to Earth …
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With NASA slated to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa sometime in the next decade, researchers are increasingly confident that the ocean on the celestial satellite “might be habitable.” Speaking at the Goldschmidt 2020 Conference earlier this month, NASA researchers said they have developed a model that shows that Europe, the sixth …
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The remains of a gas giant were seen orbiting a nearby star, astronomers reveal. The planet’s core is all that remains, but researchers think it was once a massive gaseous planet. What lies deep within the giant gas planets has long been a mystery to astronomers. Giant gas planets like …
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Deep in the hearts of Neptune and Uranus, it could be raining diamonds. Now scientists have produced new experimental tests that show how this could be possible. The hypothesis is that the intense heat and pressure thousands of kilometers below the surface of these ice giants should separate the hydrocarbon …
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ANDYou’d think if you found the first evidence that a planet larger than Earth lurked unseen in the far reaches of our solar system, it would be a great time. It would make you one of the few people in all of history who has discovered such a thing. But …
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