exoplanets
James Webb Wraps up 3 Months in the Freezer. It’s Ready for Space
The James Webb Space Telescope just emerged from 3 months of vacuum-chamber testing, another milestone on the road towards its…
Astronomers Figure Out a New Way to Search for Planets at Alpha Centauri
A mew study by a team of exoplanet scientists has revealed what kinds of planets are likely to lurk around…
Exoplanet-Hunting Survey Discovers Three More Giant Alien Worlds!
Using data from the SuperWASP survey, an international team of astronomers has identified two new "hot Saturns" and one "Super-Neptune".
Astronomers Find Comets Orbiting a Star 800 Light-Years Away
Thanks to the efforts of a team of professional and amateur astronomers, the first extra-solar comets have been observed.
Project Blue: Building a Space Telescope that Could Directly Observe Planets Around Alpha Centauri
An international consortium of scientists known as Project Blue hopes to crowdfund the creation of a space telescope that will…
Neptune-Sized Exomoon Found Orbiting a Jupiter-Sized Planet?
A new study by an astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research shows that the first exomoon…
What are Gas Giants?
The outer planets of the Solar System - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - are gas giants, a designation which…
Standford Team Creates mDOT, a Mini-Starshade for Exoplanet Research
A team from Standford University's Space Rendezvous Laboratory have created a small-scale demonstrator of Starshade technology to help in the…
Advanced Civilizations Could Build a Galactic Internet with Planetary Transits
In a recently published paper, Dr. Duncan Forgan proposed that alien civilizations could create a "galactic internet" by using artificial…
NASA Announces 10, That’s Right 10! New Planets in Their Star’s Habitable Zone
The latest catalog to be released by the Kepler mission features and additional 10 potentially-habitable planets, and has led to…