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Unlocking Mars' Mystery: Where Did the Atmosphere Go?

Billions of years ago, Mars is hypothesized to have been a much warmer and wetter planet featuring active volcanoes and vast liquid water oceans. However, something happened that caused the Red Planet to become the cold and dry world we see and explore today, but where did its atmosphere go? This is what a recent ...

Mapping the Cosmos: The Discovery of the Neptunian Ridge

How do the characteristics of Neptune-like exoplanets, also known as exo-Neptunes, differ from each other? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated a new classification known as the “Neptunian Ridge”. This ...

Astronomers Unveil Colossal Black Hole Jets Spanning 23 Million Light-Years

How large can black hole jets become? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated the largest pair of black hole jet to date, with an estimated length of 23 million light-years. Black hole ...

First Observations of Atmospheric Asymmetry on an Exoplanet

Can an exoplanet’s atmosphere exhibit east-west asymmetry, meaning its two edges are vastly different from each other? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as an international team of researchers led by the University of Arizona investigated the atmosphere of WASP-107 b ...

Wobbling Mars: Detecting Dark Matter Through Primordial Black Holes

Could slight wobbles in the orbit of Mars be caused by microscopic black holes that have existed since the Big Bang? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review D hopes to address as a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of ...