Roughly half of all planetary systems have planets much closer to their stars than Mercury is to our Sun. Can a system’s magnetic field during the stage of planet formation explain why half of all systems (including our own) do not have these planets when the other half do?
Three more potentially habitable planets that are also relatively nearby have been discovered! If they are really in their habitable zone, they should have water today, but only if they did not lose it all early on in their lifetimes. Could any of these planets have retained their water supply?
Look up in the sky. It’s a bird! No, it’s a background eclipsing binary! No, it’s Kepler-167e: the first transiting exoplanet that’s just like Jupiter!!!
Baby planets still living in their natal disks don’t want astronomers to find and take pictures of them. But that doesn’t mean we can’t try!
Will Smith and his son Kitai are back in this highly anticipated, totally unexpected sequel and this time, they’ve crash landed on a Super-Earth. Surviving won’t be easy, but it might be even harder for the planet’s atmosphere.