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On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...
When a planet is tidally locked, one side always faces its star while the other side is forever in darkness. As you might imagine, this would mean the warm side fries while the other freezes.
There are exoplanets where one side is always in sunlight and the other is always dark. But a particular region of these planets could be habitable.
Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms, but that these storms were far different from those on Earth.
Artist's impression of the exoplanet WASP-121 b. It belongs to the class of hot Jupiters. Due to its proximity to the central star, the planet's rotation is tidally locked to its orbit around it.
New research has found that lightning, while not very common, can occur on tidally locked exoplanets like our nearest neighbor, Proxima b.
Astronomers confirm the existence of a first-of-its-kind tidally locked exoplanet, Kua'kua. This alien world is locked to its star, resulting in permanent day on one side and eternal night on the ...
Exoplanets also reflect light that's Doppler shifted according to how the planet rotates. This is how we can tell if an exoplanet is tidally locked, with one side facing toward its star and one ...
Space Exoplanets with a permanent day side may sometimes flip into night Some planets outside our solar system are thought to be tidally locked, with one side always facing their star, creating a ...
The exoplanet WASP-107b is tidally locked to its star. That means that the exoplanet always shows the same face to the star it is orbiting.
The team's data also reveals tidally locked wet worlds can lose water to freezing on the night side or from water vapor in the atmosphere literally drifting out into space.