Heavy Metal Horizons: An Ultra-Hot Jupiter That Rains Liquid Iron
An international team of astronomers discover an ultra-hot Jupiter where liquid iron literally rains from the skies.
Ancient Aurorae: Assyrian and Babylonian Astrologers Recorded the Oldest-Known Solar Storms
Researchers from Osaka University find references to candidate auroral activity in ancient cuneiform tablets dating from around 660 B.C.
Can an Orphaned Exomoon Help Solve the Mystery of Tabby’s Star?
Simulations by astronomers at Columbia University suggest an evaporating exomoon could be behind the mysterious dimming behaviour of KIC 8462852.
Fluorescent Worlds: Searching for Life’s Glow
New research by astronomers at Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute uncovers a novel way to search for the existence of life in the Universe. Flares from red dwarf stars, commonly believed to pose serious problems for habitability, might actually expose hidden biospheres through the process of biofluorescence.
Big and Fuzzy or Small and Rocky? A Close-In Sub-Neptune with Near-Solar Metallicity
Observations from Hubble and Spitzer bring us one step closer to understanding the atmospheric compositions of intermediate-mass exoplanets.