Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation
Congrats to former CEHW graduate student, Dr. Gudmundur Stefansson, and the rest of the team on their recent paper in Science that reports...
Read MoreEarth-like planets could form even in the harshest environments
CEHW Professor Eric Feigelson is a member of the XUE (eXtreme UV environments) collaboration that found potentially planets with water...
Read MoreRapid Formation of Super-Earths Around Low-Mass Stars
Simulating the formation of super-Earths around M dwarfs A recent study accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal...
Read MoreMeasuring Rocky Exoplanet Compositions with the James Webb Space Telescope
NASA NExSS and NPP postdoc Dr. Eva Bodman recently published a paper on “Inferring the Composition of Disintegrating Planet...
Read MoreA disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf
Astronomers have discovered evidence for a rocky planet being destroyed and material from the planet being accreted onto a white dwarf....
Read MoreA star so fascinating…
Most of the time scientists labor in obscurity. But sometimes a science result captures the public’s imagination in a way...
Read MoreA Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall on the Dark Side of the Moon
“Arpita Roy, Steinn Sigurdsson, and I just finished a long project in lunar geology theory. It’s been a trip!” – Prof....
Read MoreMysterious planet-like object reveals its surprising identity
A mysterious planet-like object orbiting a not-quite-starlike “brown dwarf” is the most recent enigma discovered by...
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