SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged Exoplanets The rich get richer: High-mass stars steal planets from smaller stars Simulations show some stars possess purloined planets. By Phil Plait | 4 days ago Astronomers find a torched super-Earth on a ONE DAY orbit around its star We’ve found the last planet in the galaxy you'd want to live on. By Phil Plait | 5 days ago A telescope the size of the Earth sees the wobble of a bizarre planet in a binary star GJ 896Ab is a planet of many odd characteristics. By Phil Plait | 2 weeks ago Two super-Earths found around a tiny red dwarf star — with one in the habitable zone Small star, big planets, great opportunity. By Phil Plait | 3 weeks ago A still-forming exoplanet predicted to exist is found in exactly the right spot AS 209's Jupiter-sized planet seen stirring things up around the young star By Phil Plait | 3 weeks ago A nearby super-Earth may be a water world The planet TOI-1452b is bigger than Earth and may have a lot more water. By Phil Plait | 3 weeks ago JWST takes its first direct image of an exoplanet HIP 65426b is a hot super-Jupiter orbiting a very young nearby star. By Phil Plait | 1 month ago JWST sees carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time Discovery of CO2 hints at bigger ones to come. By Phil Plait | 1 month ago Why don’t we see exoplanets sharing the same orbit? Tides. Two planets that share the same orbit likely don’t exist. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago Ah, another lovely summer day where the sky is filled with puffy clouds of molten rock On some exoplanets, it’s raining rocks. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago Load More
The rich get richer: High-mass stars steal planets from smaller stars Simulations show some stars possess purloined planets. By Phil Plait | 4 days ago
Astronomers find a torched super-Earth on a ONE DAY orbit around its star We’ve found the last planet in the galaxy you'd want to live on. By Phil Plait | 5 days ago
A telescope the size of the Earth sees the wobble of a bizarre planet in a binary star GJ 896Ab is a planet of many odd characteristics. By Phil Plait | 2 weeks ago
Two super-Earths found around a tiny red dwarf star — with one in the habitable zone Small star, big planets, great opportunity. By Phil Plait | 3 weeks ago
A still-forming exoplanet predicted to exist is found in exactly the right spot AS 209's Jupiter-sized planet seen stirring things up around the young star By Phil Plait | 3 weeks ago
A nearby super-Earth may be a water world The planet TOI-1452b is bigger than Earth and may have a lot more water. By Phil Plait | 3 weeks ago
JWST takes its first direct image of an exoplanet HIP 65426b is a hot super-Jupiter orbiting a very young nearby star. By Phil Plait | 1 month ago
JWST sees carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time Discovery of CO2 hints at bigger ones to come. By Phil Plait | 1 month ago
Why don’t we see exoplanets sharing the same orbit? Tides. Two planets that share the same orbit likely don’t exist. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago
Ah, another lovely summer day where the sky is filled with puffy clouds of molten rock On some exoplanets, it’s raining rocks. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago
