Team of astronomers led by the University of Montreal (UdeM) find that two exoplanets may be mostly water. Astronomers have discovered evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are "water worlds," planets where water makes up a large fraction of the volume.
According to the researchers, the planets may not have oceans directly at the planet's surface like those we have on Earth.
Scientists find new 'waterworlds' that look nothing like any planet in our solar system
The planets are almost entirely made up largely of water, marking the first time that such worlds have ever been confidently identified by scientists.
Previously, the researchers were thought to be far more standard planets – but they are actually far more pioneering than we realised, scientists say.
Discovery of a new type of planet largely composed of water: UNM Newsroom
Through a detailed study of a planetary system 218 light-years away, a team of international researchers is providing evidence for the existence of a new type of planet called a water world .
The team, led by Caroline Piaulet , a Ph.D. student of the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at the Université de Montréal, published a detailed study of the Kepler-138 planetary system.
NASA probe to inspect the solar system's most active volcanic world, Io | Space
After exploring Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Europa, NASA's Juno probe is about to set its sights on the third of the giant planet's four main moons — the mysterious volcanic moon Io.
The flybys, NASA said in a statement (opens in new tab) , will enable scientists "to perform the first high-resolution monitoring campaign of the magma-encrusted moon, studying Io’s volcanoes and how volcanic eruptions interact with Jupiter’s powerful magnetosphere and aurora."
The most volcanic world in the solar system is about to be visited by a NASA spacecraft - East ...
(CNN) — A NASA spacecraft is gearing up for the first of a series of close encounters with the most volcanic place in the solar system. The Juno spacecraft will fly by Jupiter’s moon Io on Thursday, December 15.
The maneuver will be one of nine flybys of Io made by Juno over the next year and a half. Two of the encounters will be from a distance of just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) away from the moon’s surface.
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Nasa telescope spots '7-planet solar system' that could have habitable worlds – and all ...
The space agency's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was able to spot them and found some fascinating details.
The most noteworthy being that they're within the star's habitable zone where there may well be liquid water.
It's too soon to know for sure but scientists expect to have a better idea within the coming months and years thanks to James Webb's incredible ability to detect stuff we've never seen before in space.
10 great films set outside our solar system | BFI
In James Cameron's Avatar (2009), tiny islands float over the jungle moon Pandora, sending cascades of liquid to the lunar surface below. These waterfalls – as fantastic (where does so much water come from?
Avatar may be set in realms far beyond our solar system, but Cameron's immersive world-building created an allegorical playground in which he could explore all manner of earthly issues – the horrors of colonialism, the exploitability of a fragile environment, the resistible force of America's ...
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