exoplanet
Gliese 486b is a Hellish World With Temperatures Above 700 Kelvin
The CARMENES consortium recently discovered a super-Earth just 21 light-years away that will be the perfect test case for exoplanets…
There are Planets So Close to Their Stars That They Have Magma Oceans 100km Deep and Winds that Go 8000 km/h
200 light years away, “super earth” exoplanet K2-141b orbits a star so closely that its "year" is only 7 hours…
James Webb Will Look for Signs of Life on Planets Orbiting Dead Stars
Can the galaxy's dead stars help us in our search for life? A group of researchers from Cornell University thinks…
Hubble Examines Earth’s Reflection as an ‘Exoplanet’ During a Lunar Eclipse
What would we look for in a distant exoplanet in the hunt for Earth-like worlds, and perhaps life? A recent…
A Strange Planet has been Found that’s Smaller than Neptune But 50% More Massive
Astronomers have found another strange exoplanet in a distant solar system. This one's an oddball because its size is intermediate…
There are Natural Starshades Out There, Which Would Help Astronomers Image Exoplanets
A new study by an international team of astronomers has shown that eclipsing binary stars could act as a natural…
Study Finds Bizarre Exoplanet Orbits for Binary Stars
There’s an iconic scene in the original Star Wars movie where Luke Skywalker looks out over the desert landscape of…
What is a Generation Ship?
The concept of a Generation Ship is a time-honored one, but is it the best way to send an interstellar…
Astronomers Image the Atmosphere of a Red Dwarf Planet for the First Time. Spoiler Alert, it’s a Terrible Place to Live
Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers was able to study the surface of an exoplanet…
Ground-Based Telescope Directly Observes the Atmosphere of an Extrasolar Planet, and Sees Swirling Clouds of Iron and Silicates
We've finally got our first optical look at an exoplanet and its atmosphere, and boy is it a strange place.…