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05/19/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Uranus smells, says scientist, who finds that the planet’s upper atmosphere is composed of hydrogen sulfide

The findings of a new U.K. study suggest that the upper atmosphere of the seventh planet in our Solar System smells the same as rotten eggs, reports a Live Science article. The study specifically suggested that the topmost clouds of Uranus contain a lot of hydrogen sulfide. You may not be familiar with that chemical, but if you […]

03/23/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

NASA has identified an exoplanet with large amounts of water

Scientists have found water in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet known as WASP-39b. Although its initial discovery was way back in 2011, little research has been directed towards the Saturn-sized extrasolar planet up until recently. The team who took the first in-depth look at WASP-39b collected data from various telescopes. Namely, the Hubble Space […]

01/30/2018 / By Earl Garcia

The search for Earth II: Three new French telescopes are searching the stars for another planet like ours

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced that a French-led project, known as Exoplanets in Transits and their Atmospheres (ExTrA), may help space experts better observe the night sky for signs of Earth-like planets through three new telescopes installed at the La Silla Observatory in northern Chile. According to ESO, the new telescopes were designed to monitor the night sky to […]

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