Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
How do young planets form around young stars? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers led by Dartmouth University examines the ...
A planet nearly twice the size of Jupiter is losing its atmosphere through dramatic jets of helium unfurling before and behind it as it travels through space. A team of astronomers discovered the ...
Astronomers have discovered that a gigantic planet has been hiding a 350,000-mile-long tail as its atmosphere seeps away. The exoplanet known as WASP-69 is gargantuan—roughly the size of Jupiter, the ...
What do you get when a hot young world orbits a wildly unstable young red dwarf? For AU Microsopii b, the answer is flared from the star tearing away the atmosphere. That catastrophic loss happens in ...
Schematic view of planetary material escaping through Venus magnetosheath flank. The red line and arrow show the region and direction of observations by BepiColombo when the escaping ions (C+, O+, H+) ...
Located 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b offers astrophysicists a window into the dynamic processes that shape planets across the galaxy. The star it orbits is ...
Pluto's atmosphere has an extended reach. Data collected by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveals that the gas surrounding the dwarf planet extends as far as 1,000 miles outward into space. That's ...