A Neptune in the Nearby Hyades
A Neptune-sized planet has been found orbiting one star in a binary system in the Hyades cluster. What can this tell us about planet formation in extreme environments?
Forming Planetesimals in A Dust and Gas Vortex
AB Aur appears to have decaying vortex in its disk where planets are forming.
Detecting Exoplanet Life in Our Proximity
Researchers have devised a technique using JWST that could potentially reveal the presence of carbon dioxide on the nearby exoplanet Proxima Centauri b.
A New Glow in the Eye of Sauron
Folmahaut’s debris disk has been observed to have an unusual brightening in millimeter wavelengths.
Great News for Impatient Scientists!
Are you an impatient exoplaneteer? Luckily for you, several researchers have made a new Bayesian rejection sampling method, aptly named Orbits for the Impatient, which can be used to find orbits of directly imaged long-period objects.