Tilted Tatooines can serve as a source of strange, solo planets
Free-floating planets are hard to explain. Can the messy evolution of tilted planetary systems around binary stars help?
Siblings or Only Child: M Dwarf Planets
M dwarf stars host single planet systems (only child) and multi-planet systems (siblings). Let’s explore the differences!
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To the [Exo]Moon and Back: Understanding Limitations of Exomoon Detections
Could we detect exomoons through transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets? Today’s authors seek to understand if HIP 41378 f could potentially host an exomoon!
Astronomers Join Forces Against The Sun
Our own Sun holds the keys to our understanding of how stellar activity signals present in radial velocity data sets. Now four international spectrograph teams have joined forces to combine data.
Where do Hot-Jupiters come from? RV population statistics suggests planet-planet interactions
Astronomers still aren’t completely certain how Hot Jupiters form. Today’s paper presents a population level study that suggests HJs form far away from their host star, and are herded inwards by dynamical interactions with coplanar outer giant companions.
Uh oh, where did the atmosphere go: the impact of host stars’ radiation on exoplanet atmospheres
Today’s post tells you how planets can lose their atmospheres due to a star’s radiation – and what this means for exoplanets we have already found!