Exoplanets
Astronomers Detect Water in the Atmosphere of a Planet 179 Light-Years Away
Gathering detailed information on exoplanets is extremely difficult. The light from their host star overwhelms the light from the exoplanet,…
The Power of the Wobble: Finding Exoplanets in the Shifting of Starlight
They say there's more than one way to skin an interstellar cat, and in astronomy there's more than one way…
We Could Build a Powerful Laser and Let Any Civilizations Within 20,000 Light-Years Know We’re Here. Although… Should We?
A powerful laser is just the thing to announce our presence as a technological species in this arm of the…
First Exomoon Found! A Neptune-Sized Moon Orbiting a Jupiter-Sized Planet
A pair of astronomers combing through data from the Kepler spacecraft have discovered the first exomoon. The moon is in…
Farewell Kepler. Welcome TESS
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral today, carrying NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite into space. This…
A New Planetary System Has Been Found with Three Super Earths
A team of astronomers recently discovered a system of three exoplanets that are just 100 light years from Earth, making…
How Badly Will Humanity Freak Out if We Discover Alien Life?
Scientists at Arizona State University wanted to find out what peoples' reactions would be to the announcement of the discovery…
Witness The Power Of A Fully Operational ESPRESSO Instrument. Four Telescopes Acting As One
The ESO's ESPRESSO instrument is getting all four of the telescopes at the Very Large Telescope to play nicely together,…
Even Though Red Dwarfs Have Long Lasting Habitable Zones, They’d be Brutal to Life
Two new studies from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have thrown some cold water on the notion that planets…
Are Drylanders The Minority On Habitable Worlds?
We assume that habitable exoplanets will have significant land masses, because that's what we have on Earth. Are we wrong?