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Worlds near and far—atmospheres, habitability, and planetary formation.
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Rebellious Exoplanet Orbits Star in Reverse Direction
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JWST found brown dwarfs at 2 Jupiter masses and a molecule no model predicted
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (448+ words) Brown dwarfs were supposed to have a floor. The objects that fall between planets and stars — too massive to be planets, too small to sustain the hydrogen fusion that makes a star burn — were thought to require at least a…...
China donates sample from far side of the moon to the UN
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (489+ words) The handover ceremony held for China's donation of a lunar soil sample collected by its Chang'e-6 mission to the UN, Vienna, Austria, September 14, 2026. /CMG China has donated a sample from the far side of the moon collected by its historic…...
NASA Ames Stars Of Month 16 September
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (560+ words) Mirage News NASA Ames Science Stars of the Month: September 2026 The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Steve Ormsby, Aphrodite Kostakis, Alejando Borlaff, Sarah Nickerson, Martina Caussi, Keiko Nomura, and Stephen Broccardo. Their…...
Comets Likely Brought Water to Young Planet System
2+ week, 5+ day ago (285+ words) Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have found evidence of exocomets - comets in other solar systems - orbiting a young star similar to our Sun. The observations point to a possible mechanism for how water might be transported from the cold…...
APOD: 2026 August 26 - JWST Images Lion's Head Nebula
3+ week, 5+ day ago (236+ words) Mirage News Astronomy Picture of the Day Explanation: Are we looking at the future of our Sun? The James Webb Space Telescope captured today's composite image of the Lion's Head Nebula (NGC 2392) with its NIRCam and MIRI instruments. The Lion's…...
Scientists Discover Mega-Earth GJ 523b: A Planet 23 Times More Massive Than Earth
4+ week, 1+ day ago (1370+ words) What if a planet just 2.5 times wider than Earth packed more than 23 Earths’ worth of mass inside it? That is the strange case of GJ 523b, a newly characterised world that is forcing astronomers to take a closer look at how…...