[/caption] The concept of nomad planets has been featured before here on Universe Today, and for good reason. Not only…
While Kepler and similar missions are turning up planets by the fist full, there's long been many places that astronomers…
[/caption] The old saying of the universe being stranger than we can imagine definitely applies to a newfound exoplanet orbiting…
Jet Propulsion Laboratory's proposed FINESSE space telescope may not hunt for exoplanets, but it will find out what they're made…
[/caption] Free-floating "rogue" planets may occasionally dip into the inner Solar System, picking up dust containing organic compounds -- a.k.a.…
[/caption] Are we too hopeful in our hunt for extraterrestrial life? Regardless of exoplanet counts, super-Earths and Goldilocks zones, the…
[/caption] The star 55 Cancri has been a source of joy and firsts for planet hunters. Not only was it…
[/caption] As astronomers continue to discover more exoplanets, the focus has slowly shifted from what sizes such planets are, to…
[/caption] Astronomers have found four nearby white dwarf stars surrounded by disks of material that could be the remains of…
[/caption] For many of us who grew up listening to Carl Sagan, watching robotic spacecraft travel to other worlds, and…