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The atmosphere of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c (artist’s illustration) might have been blasted away by its star’s radiation.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For...
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has gotten its first look at a hotly anticipated set of targets — the...
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Matsui, T. & Abe, Y. Evolution of an impact-induced atmosphere and magma ocean on the accreting Earth. Nature 319, 303–305...
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A ring of planetary debris studded with moon-sized structures has been observed orbiting close to a white dwarf star, hinting...
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Earth's moon is vitally important in making Earth the planet we know today: the moon controls the length of the...
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It's hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than our closest planetary neighbor. With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide,...
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Nature, Published online: 13 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02720-2A sophisticated climate model suggests that liquid-water oceans never formed on Venus, and that...
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A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been identified by astronomers,...