There are several candidates among the exomoons—including Kepler-1625b-i and Kepler-1708b-i, which are similar in size to Neptune. Scientists suggest that they may have a dense atmosphere, but their ...

Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) featured the now-iconic two-sun, “circumbinary” planet, Tatooine. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Exomoons are a hot topic in the science community, as ...

Although ongoing volcanic activity on Venus has been hypothesized, directly detecting active lava flows is challenging. Now, an analysis of Magellan radar images of Venus acquired at different ...

Kepler-1625b-I and Kepler-1708b-I are the most noteworthy exomoon candidates to date. A new analysis of the available data comes to a different conclusion. Binary neutron star mergers are complex ...

Thus far, claims of exomoon detections such as Kepler-1625b and Kepler-1708b have remained elusive. If, however, these moons orbit along their respective ecliptic planes, we'd see tell-tale dips ...

"I believe that Kepler-1625b and Kepler-1708b are perfectly valid exomoon candidates, and I think we've shown that convincingly," Kipping told Space.com. "So what do I think is really going on ...

“We would have liked to confirm the discovery of exomoons around Kepler-1625b and Kepler-1708b, but unfortunately, our analyses show otherwise.” The study’s findings underscore the ...

"We would have liked to confirm the discovery of exomoons around Kepler-1625b and Kepler-1708b, but unfortunately, our analyses show otherwise." The study's findings points to the complexity of ...

In 2022, another team, including Kipping, appeared to have discovered a second such non-stellar extrasolar body around Kepler-1708b and aptly dubbed it Kepler-1708b I. However, Rene Heller, a ...

"We would have liked to confirm the discovery of exomoons around Kepler-1625b and Kepler-1708b, but unfortunately, our analyses show otherwise." The study's findings points to the complexity of ...

"We would have liked to confirm the discovery of exomoons around Kepler-1625b and Kepler-1708b," Dr Heller at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research said in a statement in December 2023.

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