16 April 2021
Five double star systems potentially suitable for life identified by researchers
... is potentially habitable is the binary system Kepler-38, approximately 3970 light years from Earth, and known to contain a Neptune-sized planet," says Georgakarakos. "Our study confirms that even binary star systems with giant planets...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
... the interplanetary medium around them say the team. “This is a fundamental process that’s applicable to Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and probably exoplanets as well,” says Yao. The result also highlights how similar the ion auroras...
23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
..., PDS 70c, which is located approximately 5.3 billion kilometres from its host star – around the same distance as Neptune is from our Sun. At the time, a team led by Andrea Isella, an astronomer at Rice University in Houston, Texas, could...
18 October 2021
NASA's Lucy mission launches, encounters problem with solar panel
... D-type Trojans resemble those found in the Kuiper Belt of icy bodies that extends beyond the orbit of Neptune. The C-types on the other hand are found mostly in the outer parts of the Main Belt of asteroids...
31 December 2018
Planetary Ring Systems: properties, structure and evolution
.... But Saturn’s rings are only the beginning: this book includes sections on the rings of Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and “rings beyond the giant planets”. The text is divided into sections covering ring systems by location...
