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Not this month! Scientists doubt proposal to detect 1st ecomoons

New research has a pair of scientists channeling Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars: A New Hope in the detection of two moons orbiting planets outside the solar system. In short, they’re not sure that humanity’s first exomoon detections were accurate. In fact, the same findings also showed that echoeons in general can only manifest themselves… Read More »

Huge planet too big for its own sun is pushing astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation

LHS 3154b is a newly discovered massive planet that should be too big to exist. Pennsylvania State University Imagine you are a farmer looking for eggs in the chicken coop; But instead of a chicken egg, you found an ostrich egg, much larger than a chicken could lay. That’s kind of how our team of… Read More »

Huge planet too big for its own sun is pushing astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation

Imagine you are a farmer looking for eggs in the chicken coop; But instead of a chicken egg, you found an ostrich egg, much larger than a chicken could lay. That’s kind of how our team of astronomers felt earlier this year when we discovered a massive planet with a mass nine times less than… Read More »