Planets Are Mysteriously Shrinking, And We May Finally Know Why
NASA scientists have been puzzling over a group of planets that seem to be shrinking.
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NASA scientists have been puzzling over a group of planets that seem to be shrinking.
The mystery of a missing class of planets has had NASA astronomers scratching their heads. New evidence suggests radiation could be behind it.
New research suggests some exoplanets shrink over time due to intense core heat, potentially solving the mystery of the galaxy's missing planets.
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope spotted a seven exoplanet system with worlds being battered by radiation from their parent sun-like star just before its retirement in 2018.
“...astronomers, physicists and engineers...are simply unaware of the fact that the success of any SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] effort is not a matter of physical laws and engineering capabilities but essentially a matter of biological and sociological factors.”