exoplanets
A New Study Suggests How we Could Find Advanced Civilizations that Ran Out of Fusion Fuel
When it comes to our modern society and the many crises we face, there is little doubt that fusion power…
Could the ESA’s PLATO Mission Find Earth 2.0?
Currently, 5,788 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,326 star systems, while thousands more candidates await confirmation. So far, the vast…
MAUVE: An Ultraviolet Astrophysics Probe Mission Concept
For the past thirty years, NASA's Great Observatories - the Hubble, Spitzer, Compton, and Chandra space telescopes - have revealed…
New Study Examines How Extraterrestrial Civilizations Could Become “Stellivores.”
One of the most challenging aspects of astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is anticipating what life and…
Project Hyperion is Seeking Ideas for Building Humanity’s First Generation Ship
The dream of traversing the depths of space and planting the seed of human civilization on another planet has existed…
Establishing a New Habitability Metric for Future Astrobiology Surveys
The search for exoplanets has grown immensely in recent decades thanks to next-generation observatories and instruments. The current census is…
Astronomers Solve the Mystery of the Famed Brown Dwarf That is Too Bright: It’s Twins!
In 1995, Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory first observed what appeared to be a brown dwarf orbiting Gliese…
A Possible Exomoon Could be Volcanic, like Jupiter’s Moon Io
In 2012, astronomers detected a gas giant transiting in front of WASP-49A, a G-type star located about 635 light-years from…
Exoplanet Discovered in a Binary System Could Explain Why Red Dwarfs Form Massive Planets
In recent years, the number of known extrasolar planets (aka. exoplanets) has grown exponentially. To date, 5,799 exoplanets have been…
We Don’t See Many Planets in Old Triple Star Systems
Why is it important to search for exoplanets in triple star systems and how many can we find there? This…