Could the properties of an M-dwarf that might make it inhospitable also give it transformative powers? Could the star’s gravity and violence strip away a planet’s thick atmosphere, or envelope, to reveal a habitable core?
SN1997bs has been labelled an impostor for years, but could it be the real deal?
How do you get a glimpse of dark matter? Stare really hard at the outskirts of galaxies and hope the matter isn’t totally dark.
Why do planetary disks fade away so fast? A leading candidate as villain in this story is turbulence. Using the combined strengths of sophisticated theoretical models and observations, we might be able to find out if this is true!
Rings have been detected in another Solar system and, just like the rings of Saturn, they may have been carved out by exomoons.
Most exoplanets are and have been detected by the transit method. Maybe, we can improve the method even further by drawing conclusions from the recent Venus transits in 2004 and 2012.