Astronomers Spot a 'Highly Eccentric' Planet on Its Way to Becoming a Hot Jupiter July 17, 2024 — The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit ...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
Scientists have detected a potential exoplanet using an unusual method — tracking shifts in another planet’s orbit. The hot Jupiter TOI-2818b was found to have an unexpected timing variation, hinting ...
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Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...
The Startup Pulsar Fusion is proposing a 2 Megawatt nuclear fusion orbital components for 2027. Pulsar has now proceeded to ...
Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week they’ve discovered Saturn has 128 more moons, for a total of 274, far more ...
“At its farthest, YR4 will be near to Jupiter’s orbit,” Binzel said. “YR4 presents a challenge because it is small and headed away. Telescopes on the ground can track it for a few more month ...
As of February 2024, Jupiter has 95 moons ... These are objects that orbit their host planet on an elliptical, inclined, or backwards path. They also tend to have been captured by their host ...
The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...