Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching-hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is in a death spiral that will send it spiraling toward its parent star. Cosmically, a crash is expected to occur relatively soon. Researchers have been predicting for some time that this planet, called WASP-12b, will eventually plunge into its star located … Read more
Scientists have discovered that a potentially habitable planet is being stripped of its atmosphere, a process that could ultimately make the world, Trappist-1e, inhospitable to life. The stripping appears to be caused by electrical currents created as the planet races around its red dwarf host star. It is an important discovery because the Trappist-1 system, … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected methane and water vapor in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like world about 163 light-years away. Astronomers made this discovery by using this powerful infrared space telescope to observe the planet outside the solar system.exoplanetWASP-80 b passes over the face of its red dwarf star, which it orbits … Read more