Extrasolar Planets
A Planetary System That Never Was Teaches About Those That May Be
While Kepler and similar missions are turning up planets by the fist full, there's long been many places that astronomers…
Doomed Mercury-Sized Exoplanet May Be Turning to Dust
[/caption] The old saying of the universe being stranger than we can imagine definitely applies to a newfound exoplanet orbiting…
JPL Wants To FINESSE Info From Exoplanets
Jet Propulsion Laboratory's proposed FINESSE space telescope may not hunt for exoplanets, but it will find out what they're made…
Rogue Planets Could Drive By And Scoop Up Life
[/caption] Free-floating "rogue" planets may occasionally dip into the inner Solar System, picking up dust containing organic compounds -- a.k.a.…
Alien Life May Not Be So Alien – If It Exists At All
[/caption] Are we too hopeful in our hunt for extraterrestrial life? Regardless of exoplanet counts, super-Earths and Goldilocks zones, the…
Light From a ‘SuperEarth’ Detected for the First Time
[/caption] The star 55 Cancri has been a source of joy and firsts for planet hunters. Not only was it…
Searching for Exoplanet Oceans More Challenging Than First Thought
[/caption] As astronomers continue to discover more exoplanets, the focus has slowly shifted from what sizes such planets are, to…
Will This Be The Fate Of The Earth?
[/caption] Astronomers have found four nearby white dwarf stars surrounded by disks of material that could be the remains of…
We Really Hope ET is Out There, But There’s Not Enough Scientific Evidence, Researchers Say
[/caption] For many of us who grew up listening to Carl Sagan, watching robotic spacecraft travel to other worlds, and…
New Evidence For Fomalhaut Planets
[/caption] The planetary system of the star Fomalhaut has been one of intense debate over the past few years. In…