Astronomers have recently unveiled an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a new exoplanet named Enaiposha, located 47 light-years from our solar system. Initially thought to be a mini-Neptune, this ...
From left to right, Andre Izidoro, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences, and Sho Shibata, a postdoctoral fellow of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Rice ...
Artist depiction of the mini-Neptune K2-18 b. Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmstead (STScI), N. Madhusudhan. Credit: Cambridge University Exoplanet K2-18b is garnering a lot of attention. James Webb ...
Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A cluster of recent discoveries has shattered that tidy picture, revealing ...