This week Canada announced it will contribute to the European Space Agency鈥檚 Ariel mission. A first mission of its kind, the Ariel space telescope will launch in 2029 to study the atmospheres of...
Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths up to four times the size of our own are the most common exoplanets orbiting stars beyond our solar system. Until now, super-Earths were thought to be the rocky cores...
Two 苹果淫院 astronomers have assembled a 鈥渇ingerprint鈥� for Earth, which could be used to identify a planet beyond our Solar System capable of supporting life.
A new study by 苹果淫院聽University聽astronomers聽has found聽that聽the temperature on the聽nightsides聽of聽different聽hot Jupiters聽is surprisingly聽uniform, suggesting the聽dark side of these聽massive gaseous...
It鈥檚 been an exciting time for astronomy lovers in the past few years: the first black hole picture amazed, many exoplanets have been discovered, gravitational waves were observed for the first...
A sample of ancient oxygen, teased out of a 1.4 billion-year-old evaporative lake deposit in Ontario, provides fresh evidence of what the Earth鈥檚 atmosphere and biosphere were like during the...
More than 90% of Earth鈥檚 continental crust is made up of silica-rich minerals, such as feldspar and quartz. But where did this silica-enriched material come from? And could it provide a clue in the...
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