Extrasolar Planets
There Might Be 100 Million Planets In The Galaxy With Complex Life
What a multitude of worlds! A new study suggests that the Milky Way could host 100 million planets with complex life,…
How Much Can Titan’s Sunsets Teach Us About Alien Planets?
Titan -- that smoggy, orangy moon circling Saturn -- is of great interest to exobiologists because its chemistry could be…
Will We Find Alien Life Within 20 Years? You Can Bet On It.
During a hearing last week before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee SETI scientists Seth Shostak and Dan Werthimer…
Kepler Space Telescope Gets A New Exoplanet-Hunting Mission
After several months with their telescope on the sidelines, the Kepler space telescope team has happy news to report: the…
Direct Image of an Exoplanet 155 Light Years Away
Chalk up another benchmark in the fascinating and growing menagerie of extra-solar planets. This week, an international team of researchers…
14 Red Dwarf Stars to View with Backyard Telescopes
They’re nearby, they’re common and — at least in the latest exoplanet newsflashes hot off the cyber-press — they’re hot.…
Spin! Exoplanet’s Day Finishes Blazing Fast Compared To Earth
Between the time you got to work this morning and the time you leave today -- assuming an eight-hour work…
What Steps Are Needed To Find More Earths?
It wasn't so long ago that we found out there is an Earth-sized planet in a habitable zone of a…
Take a Fly-by Of All the Known Exoplanets
Here's a fun trip through the galaxy, put together by PhD student Tom Hands at the University of Leicester: In…
Kepler Has Found the First Earth-Sized Exoplanet in a Habitable Zone!
It's truly a "eureka" moment for Kepler scientists: the first rocky Earth-sized world has been found in a star's habitable…