Daniel Cunnama receives funding from the National Research Foundation and the South African Astronomical Observatory. Thanks for asking such an interesting question, Saba. When you talk about planets ...

Have you ever looked up on a clear night at the stars and noticed that some of them seemed to twinkle or dance? This twinkling is due to the Earth’s atmosphere. When light reaches Earth from a star, ...

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New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields swaddling our solar system’s planets. For ...