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06/01/2018 / By Edsel Cook

A dark hole planet? Astronomers find a “Hot Jupiter” that absorbs almost all light that hits it

One of the more recently discovered exoplanets is a rather special one. A U.K. study reported that WASP-104b gobbles up almost all the light that strikes its haze-covered surface. This dark hole of a planet is called a “hot Jupiter,” a Science Alert article states. Hot Jupiters are a type of gas giant that have […]

05/18/2018 / By David Williams

The radiation from red dwarf stars makes life on their planets improbable

In the search for other habitable planets in the galaxy besides Earth, astronomers have suggested that a closer look at red dwarf stars might be productive. Red dwarfs are, comparatively, much smaller and shine a lot less brighter than our own sun. But they are plentiful, as they make up about 75 percent of the […]

05/03/2018 / By David Williams

Why Stephen Hawking kept pushing for an Earth exodus many years before his death

The late, great Stephen Hawking understood the value of life. Life on Earth, for him, wasn’t supposed to last as long as it did. And during his borrowed time, he spoke about many different subjects, one of which was about the need for humanity to leave Earth itself and move to other planets in outer space. […]

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