Extrasolar Planets
The Search Is On For Alien Signals Around Tabby’s Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5e6WniARE8 There's a remote chance that inexplicable light variations in a star in the Northern Cross may be caused by…
Planets Around Stars like Proxima Centauri are Probably Earth-Sized Water Worlds
A new study from the University of Bern indicates that most planets that orbit red dwarf stars might be water…
Hubble Detects A Planet Around Binary Star System
Binary stars are common throughout the galaxy, as it has been estimated about half the stars in our sky consist…
Talk About A Crowded Neighborhood: Closest Binary Stars With Multiple Planets Found
The more we look, the more we see the great diversity in planetary systems around other stars. And curiously, planet…
Astronomers Discover Exoplanet With Triple Sunrises and Sunsets
Astronomers discover the first exoplanet orbiting within a triple star system and manage to obtain a direct image of the…
First Detection of Water Clouds Outside Our Solar System
Astronomers have now determined a nearby brown dwarf has some exciting characteristics: its atmosphere is full of clouds of water…
New System Discovered with Five Planets
NASA's planet-discovering Kepler mission suffered a major mechanical failure in May 2013, but thanks to innovative techniques subsequently implemented by…
Webb Telescope Gets its Science Instruments Installed
The package of powerful science instruments at the heart of NASA’s mammoth James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have been successfully…
Friendly Giants Have Cozy Habitable Zones Too
According to a recent study from the Carl Sagan Institute, aging red giant stars could still have habitable zones that…
Three New Earth-sized Planets Found Just 40 Light-Years Away
Three more potentially Earthlike worlds have been discovered in our galactic backyard, announced online today by the European Southern Observatory. Researchers using the…