Extra Solar Planets
NASA Brings Trappist-1 Into Focus… Kinda Sorta
NASA recently announced the release of raw, uncalibrated data of the TRAPPIST-1 star system, which was collected by the Kepler…
Strange Loner Planet Gets Astronomers’ Attention
After examining the strange object known as CFBDSIR 2149-0403, a team has determined that it is either a solitary planetary-mass…
Volcanic Hydrogen Gives Planets a Boost for Life
A new study by a team of astronomers from the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University indicates that habitable zones…
Did We Arrive Early To The Universe’s Life Party?
According to a new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, life as we know it could have emerged prematurely…
What is the Biggest Planet in the Solar System?
Ever since the invention of the telescope four hundred years ago, astronomers have been fascinated by the gas giant of…
Everything About Kepler-432b is Extreme, Especially the Way it’s Going to Die
Astronomers are calling Kepler-432b a ‘maverick’ planet because everything about this newly found exoplanet is an extreme, and is unlike…
250 Years of Planetary Detection in 60 Seconds
Early astronomers realized some of the "stars" in the sky were planets in our Solar System, and really, only then…
Nearby Super-Earth is Best Habitable Candidate So Far, Astronomers Say
On a clear night, you might be able to spot the red dwarf star Gliese 832 through a backyard telescope,…
Rocky Earth-sized World is a ‘Sungrazing’ Exoplanet
A newly verified planet found in data from the Kepler mission delivers on the space telescope’s task of finding Earth-size…
Habitable Earth-Like Exoplanets Might Be Closer Than We Think
Size might matter when it comes to stars having habitable environments for planets, and in this case smaller might be…