In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington, Valdosta State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the National Radio Astronomy ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 19, 2022
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Astronomers have reported a second, super-sized moon orbiting a Jupiter-sized planet beyond our solar system. If confirmed, the sighting could mean that exomoons are as common in the universe as exoplanets, and that big or ...
Astronomy
Jan 13, 2022
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What is the difference between a planet-satellite system as we have with the Earth and moon, versus a binary planet—two planets orbiting each other in a cosmic do-si-do?
Astronomy
Oct 3, 2019
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For years, astronomers have looked up at the sky and speculated about the strange dimming behavior of Tabby's Star.
Astronomy
Sep 16, 2019
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Two teams working independently have looked at the possibility of an exomoon circling the exoplanet Kepler-1625b, which orbits the star Kepler-1625. They report little to no evidence supporting its existence. One team, led ...
When I was young, the only planets we knew about were the ones in our own solar system.
Astronomy
Feb 18, 2016
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It wasn’t that long ago that astronomers began discovering the first planets around other stars. But as the field of exoplanetary astronomy explodes, astronomers have begun looking to the future and considering the possibility ...
Astronomy
Nov 7, 2011
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With the arrival of the Cassini–Huygens mission in 2004 to Saturn’s satellite Titan, we terrestrials became acutely aware that similar moons could be orbiting similarly large planets in other solar systems besides ...
Astronomy
Jun 20, 2011
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