The Case of Shrinking Planets
The authors of today’s papers investigate whether photoevaporation or core-powered mass loss is the more likely culprit for the exoplanet radius gap.
A JuMBO surprise challenges theories of planet formation
You’ve heard of binary stars, but what about binary planets? Discovered in October 2023, these unusual systems are making astronomers rethink how planets form.
I (exoplanet HR 5183 b) came in like a wrecking ball
Everyone wants to find a habitable planet. The authors of today’s paper make a compelling case that the HR 5183 system is not the best place to look.
Can Planets Survive Being Eaten?
The authors of today’s paper present a detection of a planet orbiting around its middle-aged host star – a star that was predicted to eat any planets in its way. Now the question remains, how does this planet exist?
Wake up! The first planet beyond the Milky Way just dropped
In today’s paper, the authors present evidence of the first planet discovered in a
galaxy other than our own.
Rolling in the Deep
The spectroscopists don’t want you to know that exoplanet atmospheres are actually three-dimensional! Today’s authors use computational climate models to study how we might be able to directly observe different planetary heating processes.