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Posted on July 2, 2025

Exoplanets that cling too tightly to their stars trigger their own doom: ‘This is a completely new phenomenon’

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own parent stars by being too clingy.
Posted on June 30, 2025

Astronomers discover a galaxy frozen in time for billions of years: ‘Fossil galaxies are like the dinosaurs of the universe’

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has been "frozen in time" for billions of years. Like a celestial dinosaur fossil, this galaxy could reveal the secrets of cosmic evolution.
Posted on June 30, 2025

NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft and citizen scientists discover a cool new alien world

With the aid of NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS, citizen scientists have discovered a new gas giant that is cool, literally and figuratively.
Posted on June 25, 2025

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its 1st exoplanet and snapped its picture (image)

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, TWA 7b which is also the lightest exoplanet ever to be directly imaged.
Posted on June 20, 2025

James Webb Space Telescope discovers planets forming in space’s most punishing environments

James Webb Space Telescope finds exoplanets in extreme environments that could potentially be habitable.
Posted on June 14, 2025

JWST spies frigid alien world on bizarre orbit: ‘One of the coldest, oldest and faintest planets that we’ve imaged to date’

The James Webb Space Telescope has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of one of the coldest and oldest known exoplanets.
Posted on June 13, 2025

Proposed NASA radio probe could use gravity ‘lumpiness’ to reveal the insides of alien worlds

A new probe in development known as GIRO represents a low-cost step toward unlocking the secrets of exoplanets, all through the invisible pull of gravity.
Posted on June 11, 2025

James Webb Space Telescope sees 1st exoplanet raining sand alongside ‘sandcastle’ partner world

In two related firsts, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered sand-filled rains on a distant exoplanet as its "sandcastle" partner world forms from sandy matter before the eyes of astronomers.
Posted on June 6, 2025

A hidden ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet is dipping in and out of its habitable zone

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth.
Posted on June 4, 2025

A tiny star gave birth to a giant exoplanet, but no one knows how

A giant exoplanet is surprisingly chill given how close it is to its red dwarf star — perhaps because the star is so little.

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