Mountains on Venus are capped with snow, just like on Earth. Unlike Earth, Venusian snow is made up of heavy metal-containing minerals. Continue reading →
A dusty "cashew-shaped" feature around the star Oph IRS 48 could reveal a key phase in the evolution of planets. Continue reading →
Uranus and Neptune have some of the strongest winds in the solar system, but those winds are confined to relatively thin layers of their atmospheres. Continue reading →
What if we're looking at planets that DO have life, but we're not seeing it because we don't know any better? ->
Bizarre, super-dense chthonian planets may be the cores of evaporated gas giants. ->
Earth microbes have been found able to survive in the low pressures found on the surface of Mars. ->
The ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured an infrared picture of the star HD100546 -- is that clump of gas a "baby bump"? ->
Data acquired from NASA's MESSENGER probe suggest that Mercury used to have an ocean of molten rock. ->
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