Using state-of-the-art telescopes, Hannah Wakeford measures exoplanet atmospheres, aiming to better understand how their clouds impact the nature of the planet’s climate

Detecting active volcanoes on Venus is a long-standing goal in planetary research. Venus is covered in sulfuric acid clouds and lava plains which probably originate from volcanic activity, but how many eruptions the planet experiences is unknown. Observing eruptions could help us discover the interior composition of the planet, determine its level of geologic activity,...

Interactions between the planetary magnetic field of a hot Jupiter and the winds within its atmosphere are moderated by the electron and ion abundances. For a solar metallicity atmosphere at pressures...

LFRic advances weather and climate modelling through supercomputing innovation, collaboration, and next-generation training programs.

We present a reanalysis of JWST NIRCam F322W2/F444W transit observations of the hot Jupiter HD 209458 b to extract morning and evening transmission spectra. To determine whether asymmetries in the tra...

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) welcomes an upcoming debate at the Houses of Parliament about cuts impacting astronomy and encourages all Fellows to contact the...

Photochemical haze, a common aerosol type expected to form in the atmospheres of hot-Jupiters, can become concentrated to different extents between the morning and evening limbs depending on the balan...

A new job announcements platform for planetary science Planetary Research Jobs is a new online platform that centralizes job announcements in the field of planetary science. Any person can browse the website for free, and any person with an ORCID iD (which is almost everyone) can post an announcement at no cost. Job announcements can [...]

Didier Queloz urges UK funding bodies to rethink funding changes, with scientists also fearing Nottingham’s ‘first-rate’ department is under threat

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On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

In a narrow sense, LLMs are superhuman. They operate at computerish speeds and can now churn out text in seconds or minutes, that a human would take hours to write, if they could write it all. Thus…

drupal-media[data-view-mode=half_page_width] { display: inline-block; width: 50%; } The Royal Astronomical Society is encouraging physics teachers in the UK to sign ...

ABSTRACT. Cloudy atmospheres produce electric discharges, including lightning. Lightning, in turn, provides sufficient energy to break down air molecules i

The collection of known Exoplanets represented based on their date of detection and their relative size to scale.

The Planetary Society is organizing a new space constituency that is educated, empowered, and loud.

A science team has combined data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope to see evidence of cloud convection on Saturn’s moon Titan in the northern hemisphere for th...

“It would be nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science.”…