Extrasolar Planets
Standford Team Creates mDOT, a Mini-Starshade for Exoplanet Research
A team from Standford University's Space Rendezvous Laboratory have created a small-scale demonstrator of Starshade technology to help in the…
Hubble Eyes Stratosphere Around a Very Hot, Watery Jupiter!
A recent study by a team of astronomers, using data provided by Hubble, has provided the best evidence to date…
Kepler Spots the First Exomoon Candidate 4000 Light Years From Earth
Relying on Kepler data, a recent study led by researchers from the University of Columbia has turned up the first…
Advanced Civilizations Could Build a Galactic Internet with Planetary Transits
In a recently published paper, Dr. Duncan Forgan proposed that alien civilizations could create a "galactic internet" by using artificial…
NASA Announces 10, That’s Right 10! New Planets in Their Star’s Habitable Zone
The latest catalog to be released by the Kepler mission features and additional 10 potentially-habitable planets, and has led to…
Even Calm Red Dwarf Stars Blast Their Planets with Mini-Flares, Destroying their Habitability
A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week has dealt another blow to the…
Super-Earth Planet Found in the Habitable Zone of a Nearby Star
A study produced by an international team of researchers, using the HARPS-N survey, has detected a potentially habitable super-Earth just…
Trump Proposes $19.1 Billion 2018 NASA Budget, Cuts Earth Science and Education
The Trump Administration has proposed a $19.1 Billion NASA budget request for Fiscal Year 2018, which amounts to a $0.5…
We Have More Details on the Outermost Trappist-1 Planet!
A new study by an international team of researchers has revealed information about the surface conditions on TRAPPIST-1's outermost planet.
Here’s How We Can Detect Plants on Extrasolar Planets
In a presentation at Breakthrough Discuss, astrophysicist Dr. Berdyugina explained how methods used to study stars could be used to…