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A Spider’s Strange Catch: The Carbon Atmosphere of a Black Widow Companion

A Spider’s Strange Catch: The Carbon Atmosphere of a Black Widow Companion

by Kasper Zoellner | Dec 19, 2025 | Daily Paper Summaries

Just when you think exoplanet demographics can’t get any weirder, this thing shows up. A hot Jupiter with a thing for carbon that may have been a star but now lives with a dead one. Confused? Read today’s bite.

Are Water Worlds Just Made of Soot?

Are Water Worlds Just Made of Soot?

by Kasper Zoellner | Oct 17, 2025 | Daily Paper Summaries

Are the low-density planets that keep popping up in our growing collection of exoplanets really the wet worlds that we imagine them to be? Join us today as we take a closer look at why they may actually be more similar to comets than anything else.

Shot by the DART and we’re to blame! Now that space-rock won’t be the same.

Shot by the DART and we’re to blame! Now that space-rock won’t be the same.

by Kasper Zoellner | Aug 20, 2025 | Daily Paper Summaries

Pieces flying left and right and a rock spinning around in its orbit – Take a look at the consequences of shooting an asteroid with a spacecraft in today’s paper!

The suspects may be fleeing the scene of the crime, but our most stellar detectives are on the case!

The suspects may be fleeing the scene of the crime, but our most stellar detectives are on the case!

by Kasper Zoellner | Jul 12, 2025 | Daily Paper Summaries, PRJ

What kind of event is violent enough to fling around stars that are hundreds of times more massive than our Sun? Find out today!

Weather forecast for the HWO: Cloudy with a chance of biosignatures

Weather forecast for the HWO: Cloudy with a chance of biosignatures

by Kasper Zoellner | Jun 26, 2025 | Daily Paper Summaries

In today’s paper, we take a look at how pesky clouds might actually be a good thing when it comes to detecting biosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres with NASA proposed next generation space telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory.

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