Earth’s first interstellar visitor is neither an alien aircraft nor a comet, as some scientists previously speculated when whizzed through our Solar System in 2017. A new study from Arizona State University suggests Oumuamua is nothing more than a chunk from a Pluto-like planet that was blasted off from its home some 400 million years … Read more
A small gas exoplanet may have lost its atmosphere billions of years ago, but then gained a second one through volcanic activity, according to astronomers. The planet, GJ 1132 b, is thought to have begun as a gaseous world, similar to Jupiter or Saturn but smaller than Neptune, with a thick hydrogen blanket of atmosphere. … Read more
A potential Neptune-to Saturn-sized planet that ‘could be suitable for life’ has been discovered in the habitable zone of a neighboring star system. The exoplanet, dubbed ‘C1,’ was spotted in the Alpha Centauri triple star system 4.4 light-years from Earht, which is also home to Alpha Centauri A and B, along with the more famous … Read more
A Jupiter-like planet called HD106906 b, which orbits two stars 336 light-years away, could shed light on the hypothesised member of our Solar System known as ‘Planet Nine’. HD106906 b, which is around 11 times the mass of Jupiter, is an exoplanet – a planet outside our Solar System. It resides a whopping 738 astronomical units away from its … Read more
Astronomers from the Max Planck institutes has confirmed the existence of an exoplanet in another star system some 63 light years away from Earth – and have shared a picture to prove it. Called b Pictoris c, the planet was captured using the radial velocity method that detects exoplanets, along with the Very Large Telescopes … Read more
An exoplanet the size of Saturn orbiting a small faint star 35 light years away has been discovered after a radio telescope spotted a wobble in the stars motion. This is the first time a radio telescope has been used to detect an exoplanet using the ‘wobble’ technique – the wobble is caused by the … Read more