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Secrets of a Hot Saturn and its Spotted Star Unlocked by McGill, Université de Montréal Astronomers

Published: 9 January 2024

Exoplanets, planets located beyond our Solar System, captivate both scientists and the public, holding the promise of unveiling diverse planetary systems and potentially habitable worlds. Despite...

A ‘hot Jupiter’ with unusual winds

Published: 22 January 2018

The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn’t where astrophysicists expected it to be – a discovery that challenges scientists’ understanding of the many planets of this type...

NASA's Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet

Published: 14 September 2017

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has observed a planet outside our solar system that looks as black as fresh asphalt because it eats light rather than reflecting it back into space. This light-eating...

Expert: NASA News Conference on exoplanet (Feb. 22, 2017)

Published: 22 February 2017

NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 22, to present new findings on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. The event will air live on NASA...

Nearing the limits of life on Earth

Published: 19 January 2016

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars

NASA Telescopes Find Galaxy Cluster with Vibrant Heart

Published: 10 September 2015

"Usually, the stars at the centers of galaxy clusters are old and dead, essentially fossils," said Tracy Webb of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, Montreal, Canada, lead author of a new paper on the findings...

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