Exoplanets
Another Exoplanet Hunting Mission Ends: CoRoT Spacecraft Can’t be Recovered
More bad news on the exoplanet-hunting front: While the final fate of the Kepler spacecraft remains unknown, the CoRoT (Convection,…
11 years ago
Discovery! More Planets Found Orbiting In A Star Cluster
As Earthlings, we're so used to thinking about planets being in simple orbits around a single star. But the Sun…
11 years ago
‘Space Selfie’ Telescope Could Hunt Alien Planets … If It Raises A Cool $2M
A crowdfunded telescope -- best known for offering "space selfies" for backers as an incentive to send money -- is…
12 years ago
ALMA and the Comet Factory
"Ooompah, loompah, roopity rust... ALMA finds comets hiding in dust." According to many studies over recent years, astronomers are aware…
12 years ago
Flying Space Toasters: Electrified Exoplanets Really Feel the Heat
Overheated and overinflated, hot Jupiters are some of the strangest extrasolar planets to be discovered by the Kepler mission... and…
12 years ago