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The article discusses research which investigated the development of atmosphere on planet Venus, conducted by Dennis Höning of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and collagues. Topics explored include the habitability potential of Venus, the absence of plate tectonics on Venus unlike planet Earth, and the factors which may have contributed to the release of carbon dioxide into the planet's atmosphere.

The article focuses on the discovery of two giant planets, called PDS 70 b and c, orbiting the star PDS 70, by a research team led by Myriam Benisty at the Université Grenoble Alpes in France, which will be published in "The Astrophysical Journal Letters". Topics discussed include the possibility of a formation of exomoons by PDS 70 c, and the discovery of a circumplanetary disc using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile.

The article focuses on a study conducted by researcher Shang-Fei Liu published in "Nature" which determines the formation of core of the Jupiter, planet, around 4.5 billion years ago and probe of Jupiter's gravitational field suggest solid core is mixed with hydrogen through a lot of its radius.

The article reports that several cosmologists and astronomers have been tracking the exact location of Planet Nine which has been found to have an indirect existence evidence unveiled by astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown in January 2016. Cosmologists from various communities including Nicolas Cowan, Nathan Kaib and Agnès Fienga with their teams have used several techniques in finding the Planet Nine such as Hubble Space Telescope, radiowaves and Cassini probe.

The article discusses the creation of simulated planets that include graphite and diamonds by researchers including Kaustubh Hakim.

The article discusses the study by Richard Parker and colleagues at the University of Sheffield in England which revealed that the Planet Nine may not be from outer space and may have been born with the rest of the planets.

The article discusses a simulation developed by David Nesvorny of the Southwest Research Institute which indicates that there may have been a fifth gas giant planet in the solar system which was ejected following a collision with Jupiter. Nesvorny says that the five-planet model can be used to explain the orbit of Jupiter, the survival of the inner planets, and the late heavy bombardment, when debris from the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud was flung into the solar system. INSET: A NEW NAME FOR AN OLD PLANET.

The article discusses ways of testing panspermia, the spread of life through space to other planets. Topics include researcher Henry Lin's theory that inhabited planets would either clump together in colonies, signifying that the sun sits on the edge of a panspermia bubble, or that biosignatures would be seen on randomly scattered planets, signifying that panspermia doesn't happen or proceeds so slowly as to be rare.

The article discusses a study published in "Nature" by researchers Agustin Sanchez-Lavega, Damian Peach and colleagues that attempted to identify an object that rose off the surface of the planet Mars in March 2012. Topics include the various theories the team was able to disprove; the object's discovery by amateur astronomers on Earth; and the team's failure to identify a likely cause.

The article discusses the discovery of the dwarf planet 2012 VP113 by a team led by Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science, focusing on evidence in its orbit suggesting the possible existence of a giant rocky planet in the Earth's solar system.

The article discusses the transit of planet Venus. The author suggests that Venus' crossing between the Sun and Earth is an opportunity to reflect on the nature of discovery, arguing that astronomers' aims for studying Venus has changed over time. An overview of a report within the issue on the changing objectives of Venusian research is presented.

The article focuses on planetary research. It states that researchers Raymond Pierrehumbert of the University of Chicago and Eric Gaidos of the University of Hawaii calculated that a thick atmosphere of hydrogen on Earth-sized planets and super-Earths could provide greenhouse warming at distances outside the habitable zone of most stars but would still allow enough sunlight to reach the planetary surface and foster photosynthesis. It talks about the difficulty of detecting such distant planets.

The article reports on techniques, including techniques which exploit gravitational microlensing, which track a star's motion and which find planets which pass in front of their parent star, which astrobiologists can use to search for exoplanets.

The article reports on data on stars and planets that has come from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Kepler space telescope. A discussion of an analysis of the data which is being conducted by Gregory Laughlin of the University of California in Santa Cruz, California is presented.

The article reports on backwards or retrograde planets, or planets that orbit their parent stars in the opposite sense to the stars' rotations. A discussion of research which has been conducted on backwards planets by astronomers John Johnson and Josh Winn is presented. Research on modelled active galaxies that was conducted by David Garofalo of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California is discussed

The article discusses research on Saturn, its moonlets, and rings, and the understanding it brings to questions about the early solar system. Data collected from exploration of Saturn via the Cassini spacecraft is discussed. Saturn's ring system is said to mimic the materials from which the Earth and other planets formed billions of years ago. Cassini imaging team member Carl Murray is cited on the topic.

The article discusses research on rocky planets called super-earths that was conducted by Guillaume Morard of the Institute of Mineralogy and Physics of Condensed Matter in Paris France, and which found that the super-earths may be completely solid and may not be suitable for human life since they lack the ability to generate magnetic fields that ward off cosmic rays.

The article reports on research on the Earth's water content which featured computer models and was conducted by a research team at University College London, in London, England and was headed by researcher Nora de Leeuw. The research concluded that Earth's water originally came from the dust from which it was born and not from comet or asteroid impacts, as had been suggested by previous research.

The article focuses on a research about the exoplanet found in 2008 by Shu-lin Li of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Beijing, China, and colleagues published in an issue of "Nature."

The article reports that a study by Laurent Ibgui of Princeton University has explained the superpuffy appearance of some planets. A computer simulation by Ibgui suggests that planets are alternately squeezed and stretched as they circle their stars, resulting in tidal heating that warms the gas inside the planet.

The article offers news briefs related to science. California's Department of Public Health is requiring direct-to-consumer genetic tests to meet quality and reliability standards. A study led by Alan Hirsch of the Smell & Taste Treatment Research in Chicago found that obese people who sprinkled sweet or savory crystal on their food lost more weight than those who ate plain food. Researchers led by Michel Mayor of Geneva Observatory in Switzerland have found three Earth-like planets.

The article discusses the magnetic field around our solar system's innermost planet, Mercury, detected in 1974 by the National Aeronautic and Space Administration's (NASA) Mariner 10 mission. Research led by Karl-Heinz Glassmeier into the cause of this magnetic field has found that the boundary between Mercury's magnetic field and the solar wind, the magnetopause, has strong electric currents that make a second magnetic field that opposes the first field's polarity, making it weak.

The article reports on the experiment data from the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission which was released December 2007. A year's worth of results have found that, despite scorching rocks and sulphuric acid rain, there are similarities between Venus and Earth including: Venus' atmosphere has Hadley-like convection cells in the lower hemisphere, Venus has lightening, and may have had oceans due to the high ratio of deuterium (heavy hydrogen).

The article discusses the International Linear Collider (ILC). The ILC, the next generation atom smasher, promises to recreate conditions moments after the big bang in an effort to understand dark matter and search for extra dimensions. Experts calculate that the ILC will cost $6.7 billion and 22 million worker-hours over five years to build.

Presents findings of research on the formation of giant planets conducted by team led by Tom Quinn of Seattle, Washington-based University of Washington. Possibility of the formation of giant planets around a newborn star in a few hundred years; Development of a model by the team the theory; Reference to an article on the research published in the periodical 'Science,' vol. 298.

States that Promixa Centauri, the nearest stellar neighbour next to the sun, may be home to a giant planet, according to a report by Astronomical Journal. Objective of the research by scientists from the Space Telescope Institute; Comments from the Al Schultz, leader of the research team.