‘Monster’ planet discovery challenges formation theory

‘Monster’ planet discovery challenges formation theory

A giant planet – the existence of which was previously thought extremely unlikely – has been discovered by an international collaboration of astronomers, with the University of Warwick taking a leading role. New research, led by Dr. Daniel Bayliss and Professor…

Most detailed map of ‘super Earth’ reveals a lava planet

Most detailed map of ‘super Earth’ reveals a lava planet

An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, used data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and obtained the most detailed ‘fingerprint’ of a rocky planet outside our solar system to date. They found a planet of two…