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Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...
NASA has uncovered a new ‘Super Earth’ planet just 154-lightyears away that has been flashing a mysterious signal. The planet ...
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From the water that covers most of it to the moon that orbits it, here are some bizarre things about our home planet that science still doesn't completely understand.
The last day of summer is upon us and a new rocky planet has finally been confirmed by scientists. Close to the size of Jupiter, this rocky planet is only 1.6 million miles from it’s star, which means ...
A new study using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a star beyond the Sun. The study, published today in… ...
Volcanic planets with static crusts, called Ignan Earths, can maintain liquid oceans and temperate climates favorable to life.
Data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has given scientists a first glimpse into conditions on the surface of a rocky exoplanet beyond the solar system. Planet LHS 3844b is located 48.6 light ...
Distant rocky planets may have exotic chemical makeups that don’t resemble Earth’s. ... continental drift and the fraction of a planet’s surface that consists of oceans versus continents.
If the planet has a shallow surface, however, the photochemical reactions can proceed to completion. This should lead to different abundance ratios depending on the surface depth of the planet. X ...
This artist's illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwarf star. The planet's surface may be covered mostly in dark lava rock, with no ...