exoplanets
Time Flies. NASA Releases a Mosaic of TESS’ View of the Northern Sky After Two Years of Operation
NASA's TESS planet-finding spacecraft completed its primary mission about 3 months ago. TESS's (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) job was to…
Here’s a Clever Idea, Looking for the Shadows of Trees On Exoplanets to Detect Multicellular Life
That's the kind of headline that can leave us scratching our heads. How can you see tree shadows on other…
Those are Exoplanets. You’re Looking at Actual Exoplanets 63 Light-Years Away!
By combining two exoplanet detection methods for the first time ever, the GRAVITY collaboration has confirmed the existence of a…
Astronomers think they’ve found an exoplanet in a galaxy 23 million light-years away
Using a variety of techniques astronomers have successfully identified thousands of exoplanets, which are planets orbiting stars outside of our…
Cheops Finds a World That’s Utterly Alien From Anything We Have in the Solar System
The ESA's CHEOPS (Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite) mission has announced its first discovery. It's called WASP-189 b, and it's a blistering…
There Could Be Carbon-Rich Exoplanets Made Of Diamonds
Scientists are getting better at understanding exoplanets. We now know that they're plentiful, and that they can even orbit dead…
Searching for Phosphorus in Other Stars
The Search for Life can be a lot messier than it sounds. The three words make a nice, tidy title,…
Machine Learning Algorithm Scoops up 50 New Exoplanets
A machine learning algorithm created by scientists in the UK has confirmed 50 new exoplanets, effectively opening the door to…
Astronomers Thought They’d Found a Red Dwarf That Wasn’t Hostile to its Habitable Zone Planets. They Were Wrong
New research using Hubble archive data shows that GJ 887, the nearby red dwarf star system with two exoplanets, might…
There’s No Chemical Difference Between Stars With or Without Planets
Strange New Worlds Imagine if a star could tell you it had planets. That would be really helpful because finding…