Moons come in many forms. In our solar system we have rocky moons (e.g Soil‘S Moon), ocean moons (e.g Europe And Enceladus) and frozen ice moons (e.g Triton) but there are no gas moons. Are we just unlucky not to have gas moons, or are there physical reasons why they can’t exist? There are actually … Read more
Astronomers have discovered an unusual star system located just 100 light-years away from us, with six planets immensely close to their parent star – so close, in fact, that all their orbits could fit within the distance between the stars. Mercury and our sun. It’s puzzling that this new part of the cosmos, unlike our … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Astronomers have used two different exoplanet-detecting satellites to solve a cosmic mystery and reveal a rare family of six planets located about 100 light-years from Earth. The discovery could help scientists unlock the secrets of … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Astronomers have used two different exoplanet-detecting satellites to solve a cosmic mystery and reveal a rare family of six planets located about 100 light-years from Earth. The discovery could help scientists unlock the secrets of … 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
Scientists have discovered that salt glaciers may exist on Mercury, the planet closest to the sun and the smallest world in the solar system. The discovery could show that even the most volatile conditions in the inner solar system can occasionally mirror conditions on Earth. The team’s findings complement recent discoveries showing that Pluto has … Read more