exoplanets
Another Exoplanet Hunting Mission Ends: CoRoT Spacecraft Can’t be Recovered
More bad news on the exoplanet-hunting front: While the final fate of the Kepler spacecraft remains unknown, the CoRoT (Convection,…
Three Potentially Habitable Planets Found Orbiting Gliese 667C
A closer look at the previously-studied nearby star Gliese 667C has revealed a treasure trove of planets – at least…
Flying Space Toasters: Electrified Exoplanets Really Feel the Heat
Overheated and overinflated, hot Jupiters are some of the strangest extrasolar planets to be discovered by the Kepler mission... and…
Using the Theory of Relativity and BEER to Find Exoplanets
A new method of detecting alien worlds is full of awesome, as it combines Einstein’s Theory of Relativity along with…
Weekly Space Hangout – May. 3, 2013
Another busy episode of the Weekly Space Hangout, with more than a dozen space stories covered by a collection of…
Watch Live Hangout: TESS and the Search for Exoplanets
Last month, NASA announced plans to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in 2017. This is a satellite that…
Habitable Worlds? New Kepler Planetary Systems in Images
The Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range…
Kepler Team Finds System with Two Potentially Habitable Planets
This might be the most exciting exoplanet news yet. An international team of scientists analyzing data from NASA's Kepler mission…
The Exoplanet Naming Debate Heats Up
Following last Friday’s press release from the International Astronomical Union (IAU) concerning the naming of extrasolar planets, a heated debate…
IAU Issues Response To Uwingu’s Exoplanet Naming Campaign
Given the popularity of the recent contest by Uwingu to suggest names for the closest known exoplanet to Earth (officially…