Astronomers Find Strange Alien World With Earth-Like Layered Atmosphere
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What is a hot Jupiter? Hot Jupiters are gaseous exoplanets that are close to or larger than Jupiter in size…
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Study Changes Our Understanding of Mercury’s Atmosphere
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The abundance of volatiles such as sodium and sulfur in Mercury’s crust cannot be explained by the model of extreme…
NASA Spacecraft Offers Unprecedented Details on Jupiter’s Atmosphere
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Planetologists from the team of the interplanetary station “Juno” presented the results of a study of the volumetric structure of…
Two Planets Collide in Outer Space, One of Them Loses its Atmosphere
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The ALMA ground-based radio telescope has found evidence that two terrestrial exoplanets collided in the young star system HD 172555…
Pluto’s Atmosphere is Slowly Vanishing Into Outer Space
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Pluto’s atmosphere is very thin, and its main component is nitrogen with insignificant admixtures of methane and carbon monoxide. The…
Super-Earths Reveal Clues to Evolution of “Hot” Atmospheres
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Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of two new exoplanets with ultrashort orbital periods. Both exoplanets belong to the class of…
Astronomers Detect Isotopes in Distant Alien World’s Atmosphere
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Observations have shown that carbon-13 isotopes are present in the atmosphere of the planet TYC 8998-760-1 b, which have never been discovered on a planet outside the solar system in the past.
NASA Finds Alien Molecule on Titan Never Before Observed in an Atmosphere
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Of all the places in the solar system where life is likely, Mars is number one on the list. However,…
Alien Life? 10 Things You Should Know About Phosphine in Venus’ Atmosphere
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Earth is the only place in the entire universe where life exists. That is according to our best knowledge of…
Phosphine in the Atmosphere: Scientists Have Found Possible Signs of Alien Life on Venus
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Scientists have recently revealed a fascinating discovery on Venus. They have found a specific gas on Venus–Phosphine–that could hint at…
Alien Life Can Survive in Venus’ Atmosphere Floating Within an Aerial Biosphere
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Of all the places in the solar system, life only exists on Earth. Or so we’ve been told. However, even…
Disconcerting Gas Signatures Discovered in Martian Atmosphere Baffle Experts
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The TGO (Trace Gas Orbiter) orbiter of ESA’s ExoMars mission has detected never-before-seen signatures of ozone (O3) and carbon dioxide…
Scientists Find Earth’s Atmosphere Rings Like a Bell
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A group of researchers from the University of Hawaii and the University of Kyoto has discovered that our planet’s atmosphere…
We Just Spotted a Weird Green Glow in Mars’ Atmosphere
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Scientists have observed a weird green glow in Mars’ atmosphere, and it is the first time that we actually observe…
Long-Held Idea About Venus’ Atmosphere Upended Thanks to “Lucky” Data
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Data fortuitously collected by NASA’s MESSENGER mission reveals a surge in nitrogen concentrations 45 kilometers above the surface of Venus,…
There’s Something Producing a Massive Amount of Heat In Saturn’s Atmosphere
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The upper layers of the atmospheres of the gas giant planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune) are hot, just like…
Earth’s Atmosphere Is So Freakishly Large, It Encompasses the Moon
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As noted by scientists, the outer part of the gaseous layer that surrounds us reaches 630,000 km away, 50 times…
NASA’s Spacecraft Sent to “Touch the Sun” Snaps First Image from “Inside” Sun’s Atmosphere
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is on a mission like no other spacecraft has ever attempted before. It is currently speeding towards…
Comparison Between Spitzer and JWT Images Shows What We Can Expect from Webb
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The new James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, has delivered a preview of its capabilities for observing the…
1971 Image Snapped By Plane’s Automated Camera Shows UFO in Incredible Detail
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Are we alone in the universe? Have we been visited by beings, not from Earth, and has humankind found evidence…
The Curious Case Of Mars’ Disappearing Frosty Terrain
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Mars is truly a fascinating planet. Long thought to have been barren and dead, the red planet has proven otherwise…
NASA Video Shows 22 X-Ray Binary Systems With Confirmed Black Holes
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A new NASA visualization offers a new look at 22 X-Ray binaries in our galaxy and its neighbor, the Large…