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The Astronomer Who’s About to See the Skies of Other Earths

By Thomas Lewton
October 12, 2021
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After the ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope launches later this year, Laura Kreidberg will lead two efforts to check the weather on rocky planets orbiting other stars.

The ringed planet Saturn showing its aurora in green.
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Gas Giants’ Energy Crisis Solved After 50 Years

By Robin George Andrews
June 22, 2021
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Jupiter and Saturn should be freezing cold. Instead, they’re hot. Researchers now know why.

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The Materials Scientist Who Studies the Innards of Exoplanets

By Adam Mann
June 15, 2021
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Federica Coppari uses the world’s most powerful laser to recreate the cores of distant worlds.

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Astronomers Find Secret Planet-Making Ingredient: Magnetic Fields

By Robin George Andrews
June 7, 2021
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Scientists have long struggled to understand how common planets form. A new supercomputer simulation shows that the missing ingredient may be magnetism.

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Quantum Double-Slit Experiment Offers Hope for Earth-Size Telescope

By Thomas Lewton
May 5, 2021
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A new proposal would use quantum hard drives to combine the light of multiple telescopes, letting astronomers create incredibly high-resolution optical images.

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New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery

By Nola Taylor Redd
February 18, 2020
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By watching for a special kind of flare, astronomers have identified the fingerprints of an Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star.

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The Age of Interstellar Visitors

By Michele Bannister
January 29, 2020
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As astronomers get better at finding the comets and asteroids of other stars, they’ll learn more about the universe and our place in it.

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Physics Nobel Honors Early Universe and Exoplanet Discoveries

By Michael Moyer +1 authors
Natalie Wolchover
October 8, 2019
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The astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won half of the prize for their 1995 discovery of a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a nearby star. The cosmologist James Peebles won the other half for work exploring the structure of the universe.

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Wandering Space Rocks Help Solve Mysteries of Planet Formation

By Rebecca Boyle
July 16, 2019
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After an interstellar asteroid shot past the sun, scientists realized that there’s probably a lot of itinerant rocks out there.


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