Solar Orbiter closes in on the solution to a 65-year-old solar mystery
A cosmic alignment and a little bit of spacecraft gymnastics has provided a ground-breaking measurement that is helping solve the 65-year-old cosmic mystery of why the Sun’s atmosphere is so hot.
The densest Neptunian ever observed
Its name is Toi-1853b and it is extremely peculiar: every 30 hours it completes one complete revolution around its star (the Earth takes a year to complete one complete revolution around the Sun), it has a radius comparable to Neptune’s (3.5 Earth radii, hence...
First eclipse binary system discovered in NGC 2232
By combining the photometry of the TESS space telescope with the high-resolution spectroscopy of HARPS-N (TNG), a team of researchers, led by Antonio Frasca of the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, has discovered a low-mass eclipsing binary system, the first in the...
Cheops shows scorching exoplanet acts like a mirror
Data from ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has led to the surprising revelation that an ultra-hot exoplanet that orbits its host star in less than a day is covered by reflective clouds of metal, making it the shiniest exoplanet ever found.