200 light years away, “super earth” exoplanet K2-141b orbits a star so closely that its "year" is only 7 hours…
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Unless you’re reading this in an aircraft or the International Space Station, then you’re currently residing on the surface of…
“This is where we live. On a Blue Dot.” said Carl Sagan when the now famous Pale Blue Dot photo…
We have found more than 4,000 planets orbiting other stars. Life on distant worlds could find us in the same…
The search for exoplanets has revealed types of planets that are nothing like the worlds in our own Solar System.…
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NASA's TESS planet-finding spacecraft completed its primary mission about 3 months ago. TESS's (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) job was to…
That's the kind of headline that can leave us scratching our heads. How can you see tree shadows on other…
Using a variety of techniques astronomers have successfully identified thousands of exoplanets, which are planets orbiting stars outside of our…