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4 Tiny Planets Found Orbiting Earth's Closest Solitary Star
Considered a solitary star for its lack of stellar companions, Barnard's Star is notoriously lonely—signs of any exoplanets ...
A new study reveals the structure of violent winds 1,300 light years away
The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 ...
33,000 km/h Winds? Scientists Just Found the Fastest Jetstream on an Alien World
A team of astronomers has uncovered the fastest planetary jetstream ever recorded, ripping across the equator of the giant ...
This Asteroid Had a 3 Percent Chance of Hitting Earth and Now It’s Zero
For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...
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Exoplanet's Winds 'Challenge Our Understanding of How Weather Works'
"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.
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Raging winds and hidden metals: The wild weather of a distant exoplanet
Scientists mapped exoplanet WASP-121b’s atmosphere, revealing extreme winds and hidden metals. Iron and titanium appear ...