exoplanet
Astronomers Find Tantalizing Hints of a Potentially Habitable Exoplanet
Dwarf star HD 40307 is now thought to host at least 6 exoplanet candidates... one of them well within its…
Nearby Exoplanet Could Be Covered With Diamond
Illustration of 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth that's thought to have a thick layer of diamond (Yale News/Haven Giguere) If…
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…
An Exoplanet’s Auroral Engine
Located 880 light-years away, a massive gas giant called CoRoT-2b orbits its star at a mere 2 million miles –…
Planetary Habitability Index Proposes A Less “Earth-Centric” View In Search Of Life
[/caption] It's a given. It won't be long until human technology will expand our repertoire of cataloged exoplanets to astronomical…
Shedding Some Light on a Dark Discovery
[/caption] Earlier this month astronomers released news of the darkest exoplanet ever seen: discovered in 2006, the gas giant TrES-2b…
Astronomers Discover a Dark Alien World
[/caption] An exoplanet has been discovered by astronomers that reflects less than one percent of the light it receives from…
Multi-Planet Systems Common in Kepler Findings
[/caption] Of the 1235 planetary candidates that NASA's Kepler space telescope has found so far, 408 reside in multiple-planet…
Kepler Team Announces New Rocky Planet
[/caption] Today at the American Astronomical Society conference in Boston, the Kepler team announced the confirmation of a new…
Red Suns and Black Trees: Shedding a New Light on Alien Plants
[/caption] The grass may definitely not be greener on some alien worlds, suggests a new study from the UK.…