A super-Earth ... the planet moves back out again. The planet provides a brilliant target for the next generation of telescopes to probe its atmosphere, and for scientists to test the extreme ...
Whether life could survive on such an extreme world is unknown. On Earth, our seasons are driven by our planet's 23.4-degree tilt; for instance, northern summer occurs when our planet's northern ...
A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its ... edge where temperatures rise for a short period, before the planet moves back out again. The planet provides a brilliant target for the next ...
HD 20794 d is a rocky globe in a three-planet solar system larger than Earth. Like Earth, it orbits a G-type star. The planet’s 19.7 light-year distance makes it a relatively close neighbor on a ...
How much can landing in snow protect you from a fall? We've seen it save people who jumped off a roof. Or dived off a cliff. And yes, they even fell from the top of a mountain! But what about a fall ...
Astronomers aimed the Very Large Telescope in Chile at a nearby exoplanet and discovered jet stream winds blowing nearly 80 times faster than any seen here on Earth, and the fastest ... temperature ...
A little over 500 light years away from Earth is an ... temperature extremes on the day and night side of WASP-127 b drive the strongest winds detected so far on any planet, either in our solar ...
Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new planet which is six times as large as the Earth and could host alien life. The new planet, with a mass six times that of Earth's, orbits a star ...