Day: 7 July 2025

An Exoplanet with self-defeating tendencies!

Thanks to the European Space Agency's (ESA) Cheops mission, an international team of astronomers has discovered a truly astonishing exoplanet: it is called Hip 67522 b and is literally destroying itself. Orbiting too close to its parent star, this young gas giant triggers violent explosions of energy that damage it, slowly corroding its atmosphere. A Planet […]