Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...
Mercury, our smallest planetary neighbor, has very little to call an atmosphere, but it does have a strange weather pattern: morning micro-meteor showers. Recent modeling along with previously ...
A European-Japanese space mission will reach Mercury in 2026, carrying instruments designed to answer a question that has ...
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JWST looked closer at a ‘dead rock’ planet, what it found was a lava-filled inferno
TOI-561 b, a rocky exoplanet roughly twice the mass of Earth, orbits its host star at a blistering pace, about forty times ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere - a trait considered essential for any possibility of harboring life. Well, they ...
A rare exoplanet that should have been stripped down to bare rock by its nearby host star's intense radiation somehow grew a puffy atmosphere instead -- the latest in a string of discoveries forcing ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding cake ...
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