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Anemic Stars Don’t Host Super-Earths

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 27 August 202427 August 2024

Planetary systems need the right stuff to make planets, and some stars just don’t have it.

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Smells Like an Exoplanet

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 1 August 20245 August 2024

Hydrogen sulfide, spotted in the atmosphere of the exoplanet HD 189733 b, helps constrain how the planet formed.

An artist’s rendering of a striped gas planet close to a star
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Magnetic Barriers Might Explain Mysterious Hot Jupiters

by Jonathan O’Callaghan 3 June 20243 June 2024

Hot Jupiters might end up very close to stars because a magnetic field halts their progress—and future observations could confirm the idea.

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A Magma Ocean Fuels This Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 30 May 202430 May 2024

The finding is an atmospheric first for astronomers but not for the planet.

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A Step Closer to Solving the Fermi Paradox

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 24 May 20249 January 2025

Finding evidence of complex life elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy hinges on locating rocky planets with plate tectonics and a mixture of landmasses and oceans, new research suggests.

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Red-Light-Loving Bacteria Could Expand the Search for Life

by Kristel Tjandra 22 May 202422 May 2024

Scientists are uncovering genes responsible for oxygenic photosynthesis in cyanobacteria to shift the search for potentially habitable worlds.

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Towards a Unified Framework for Earth, Mars, Titan, and Exoplanets

by Germán Martinez 18 April 202417 April 2024

From a simple set of in situ or synthetic data, a general unified model has been developed to calculate turbulent fluxes and evaporation rates on any rocky body with an atmosphere.

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Rare “Glory” Possibly Seen on Exoplanet’s Horizon

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 8 April 20248 April 2024

This rainbow-like atmospheric phenomenon depends on a very specific set of circumstances. It is common on Earth and incredibly rare beyond it.

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Tatooine, Trisolaris, Thessia: Sci-Fi Exoplanets Reflect Real-Life Discoveries

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 5 April 20245 April 2024

After astronomers discovered exoplanets wildly different from Earth, exoplanets in science fiction became less Earth-like, too.

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Out With the Old, in With the Cold

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 28 March 202428 March 2024

A 12-meter telescope at the Arecibo Observatory gets outfitted with a wideband cryogenic system to expand its capabilities.

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