Research confirms that distant world’s eternal sunrise and sunset are not alike
Pioneering new research has revealed that places where the eternal sunrise and sunset occur on a distant world have different...
Physics and Astronomy
Scientists develop new technique for bespoke optical tweezers
Scientists have developed a new way to trap small particles with light. Building on the Nobel Prize winning technique of...
NASA’s Webb telescope maps weather on planet 280 light-years away
Researchers have successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b....
Exeter Astrophysicist awarded prestigious honour from the Royal Astronomical Society
One of the world’s leading experts on the celestial objects, brown dwarfs, has joined the likes of Albert Einstein, Edwin...
NASA’s Webb Findings Support Long-Proposed Process of Planet Formation
The quest to gain a greater understanding of how planets are formed has made a new significant breakthrough, thanks to...
Intricate details of far-away planet’s atmosphere revealed through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Scientists have identified the intricate features of a distant planet’s atmosphere, revealing clouds made from silicate particles (grains of sand)...