Extrasolar Planets
New Earth-sized Exoplanet is in Star’s Habitable Zone
[/caption] An enticing new extrasolar planet found using the Keck Observatory in Hawaii is just three times the mass of…
UN May Appoint Ambassador to Visiting Aliens
[/caption] UPDATE: OK, this seemed like a cool story, reported by many news sources, but apparently, it isn't true. The…
An Alien’s View of Our Solar System
We have just begun to try and image distant solar systems around other stars, and hopefully our techniques and technology…
Electric Resistance May Make Hot Jupiters Puffy
One of the surprises coming from the discoveries of the class of exoplanets known as "Hot Jupiters" is that they…
Scientists Predict Earth-Like Habitable Exoplanet Will Be Found in 2011
[/caption] Two astronomers have written a paper and say that the first Earth-like, habitable exoplanet will be announced in May…
Does Tidal Evolution Cause Stars to Eat Planets?
[/caption] With the success of the Kepler mission, the viability of looking for planets via transits has reached maturity. However,…
Extrasolar Volcanoes May Soon be Detectable
[/caption] We’ve all seen pictures of erupting terrestrial volcanoes from space, and even eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io in the…
The Origin of Exoplanets
[/caption] We truly live in an amazing time for exoplanet research. It was only 18 years ago the first planet…
Young Exoplanet is Cloudy With a Chance of Heat Waves
[/caption] Back in 2008, the first multi-planet system of extrasolar planets was imaged, and further study of the planets in…
Kepler Discovers Multi-Planet System
[/caption] The Kepler mission has discovered a system of two Saturn size planets with perhaps a third planet that is…