Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Like a sprinkle of powdered sugar on a rich red velvet cake, this scene from the ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars Trace…
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New modeling suggests fast collisions could explain why Earth is habitable while Venus is not. Credit: Southwest Research Institute/Simone Marchi & Raluca Rufu New modeling…
Artist’s impression of HAT-P-11b, an exoplanet orbiting its host star at just one-twentieth of the distance from the Earth to the sun. Credit: Denis Bajram/University…
An artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Using observations and archival data from several of NSF’s NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the…
International research team investigated the isotopic composition of rocky planets in the inner Solar System. Earth and MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our…
This artist’s impression shows an example of a rogue planet with the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex visible in the background. Rogue planets have masses comparable…
Artist’s conception of the aerial biosphere in the cloud layers of Venus’ atmosphere. In this picture, hypothetical microbial life in the clouds of Venus resides…
Valles Marineris, seen at an angle of 45 degrees to the surface in near-true color and with four times vertical exaggeration. The image covers an…
The exoplanet GJ 367b orbits its star in an extremely short time. Only 8 hours, then a year has passed on this planet. We don’t…
This image, which shows the night side of Venus glowing in thermal infrared, was captured by Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft. Credit: JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Damia Bouic Report led by…
This image shows the most massive planet-hosting star pair to date, b Centauri, and its giant planet b Centauri b. This is the first time…
‘Eggshell planets’ are rocky worlds that have an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography. Here, an artist’s rendition of such an exoplanet.…
An illustration of a red dwarf star orbited by an exoplanet. Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI) An international team of researchers has discovered a new planet,…
This image shows several craters in Arabia Terra that are filled with layered rock, often exposed in rounded mounds. The image was taken by a…
The exoplanet GJ 367b orbits its star in an extremely short time. Only 8 hours, then a year has passed on this planet. We don’t…
‘Eggshell planets’ are rocky worlds that have an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography. Here, an artist’s rendition of such an exoplanet.…
Graphic of the sun, solar winds, and itokawa. Credit: Curtin University Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the…
The newly discovered planet is relatively close to its star, at a distance of only about 1.5 million miles out. Credit: NASA, ESA and G.…
This artist’s concept portrays the seven rocky exoplanets within the TRAPPIST-1 system, located 40 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA and JPL/Caltech Fragile orbits of seven…
The internal compositions of rocky exoplanets correlate with that of their host stars, according to a new study, but not 1:1. This suggests that planet…