Confirmed number reached for the outer planets to 5,000 in the year 2022, 30 years after the discovery of planets outside the solar system, and these discoveries include a variety of distant planets, including a super-Earth, a gas giant like Jupiter, an ice giant like Neptune, and others. According to the site,RT’, though planetary scientists … Read more
Cosmic Death Spiral Giant planet threatens to crash into home star 12/22/2022 10:36 am At some distance from Earth, a research team is observing a large exoplanet in its death throes: According to their calculations, Kepler-1658b is getting closer and closer to its star over time – a collision is inevitable. But people will probably … Read more
Barium discovered on gas giants Guessing the element in the atmosphere of exoplanets 10/15/2022 5:27 p.m With two giant planets hundreds of light-years apart, researchers stumble upon something unexpected: they discover the element barium in the upper atmosphere. But so far there is no plausible explanation for how the heavy substance got there. The two … Read more
Astronomy enthusiasts will be able to help advance science. Telescope maker Unistellar and the nonprofit SETI Science Institute have launched a campaign to identify exoplanets similar to Jupiter and offer everyone to come and help them, reports the media Space Monday, October 3, 2022. All “citizen” astronomers with a telescope can participate. The idea is … Read more
It is possible that some planets are able to form rivers of diamonds, according to a study published on Friday that used a simple type of plastic, to recreate the conditions that supposedly led to the presence of diamonds in a planetary cavity. Uranus and see you Scientists hypothesized that enormous pressures are shifting hydrogen … Read more
The universe is infinite. there are always new discoveries of planets, asteroids and other celestial bodies which should be given a name. Some have been called (8275) Inca, Cusco, Santa María de Colón, Serpiente, TRAPPIST-1d, PSR B1620-26 b, Kepler-186f… Who is in charge of such a task? Advances in science and technology have recently made … Read more
The researchers say that rocky exoplanets with atmospheres dominated by hydrogen and helium have surfaces warm enough to host liquid water. The presence of liquid water is “fit for life”, so these planets could provide habitable conditions and exotic habitats for perhaps up to 8 billion years. Exoplanets may host living organisms The new study … Read more
Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory have measured unexpected temperature changes on Neptune. Between 2003 and 2018, the global average temperature on the ice giant fell by eight degrees Celsius, writes a team led by Michael Roman from the University of Leicester and Glenn Orton from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Planetary Science Journal. … Read more