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There might be a type of exoplanet without dry land. They’re called “Hycean” worlds, a portmanteau of ‘hydrogen’ and ‘ocean.’ They’re mostly …

Credit: IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1109/OJEMB.2024.3453049 The low levels of gravity (microgravity) in space cause …

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets – almost half of the total …

Rovers on alien worlds need to be built of strong stuff. The dry rugged terrain can be punishing on the wheels as …

The study of exoplanets is challenging enough with the immense distances and glare from the host start but astronomers have taken planetary …

The discovery of a few thousand type 1a supernovae over the last few decades has helped measure the expansion of the Universe. …

Red dwarfs always make me think of the classic British TV science comedy show in the 90’s that was named after them. …

At the end of large engineering projects, the design team is typically asked to develop a document, in some cases called a …

If you want to know what the newly forming Solar System looked like, study planetary disks around other stars. Like them, our …

A spacecraft takes between about seven and nine months to reach Mars. The time depends on the spacecraft and the distance between …