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Alien planet winds hit 15,000 mph and expose hidden magnetic shields

How is an invisible magnetic field observed around a planet, so far away that it is several tens or hundreds of light years ...
In a first-of-its-kind discovery, astronomers claim they have directly measured the magnetic fields of multiple planets beyond our solar system — potentially providing a crucial new tool in the search ...
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is expected to dramatically expand the search for planets beyond our solar system.
This illustration shows magnetic activity in an exoplanet that is a gas giant like Jupiter but orbits very close to its host ...
The best explanation for this surprise, according to a team led by astronomer Julia Seidel of Côte d'Azur Observatory in ...
Astronomers used winds on ultra-hot gas giant exoplanets to infer their magnetic fields' strength, finding them to be weaker ...
When astronomers discovered the first planet outside our solar system, it was orbiting a pulsar, one of the most extreme, ...
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize the search for alien worlds by discovering around 100,000 exoplanets—far ...
On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be ...
A former CIA officer who coined a reputation as a "psychic spy" warned of an impending apocalyptic solar catastrophe on Earth ...
Interstellar space is unforgivingly vast, but the emptiness has some advantages. The lack of atmosphere means there is no aerodynamic drag.
Harvard's Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS might have scattered life-building materials, reviving panspermia ...