Extrasolar Planets
Technosignatures are NASA’s New Target for Detecting Other Civilizations in Space. Wait. What’s a Technosignature?
A NASA workshop on Technosignatures paves the way for a new approach to the search for intelligent life.
With All These New Planets Found in the Habitable Zone, Maybe it’s Time to Fine Tune the Habitable Zone
According to a new study from the Earth-Life Science Institute, it may be time to fine-tune what astronomers mean by…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 491: Exoplanet Update
Finally, a big update. Have there been news in the realm of exoplanets? More news that we can possibly cover.…
Hubble Sees a Huge Dust Cloud Around a Newly Forming Star
The Hubble has detected a massive dust cloud 150 billion miles across around the young star HR 4796A.
Good News For The Search For Life, The Trappist System Might Be Rich In Water
Scientists have been hard at work trying to determine the densities of the TRAPPIST-1 planets, and it looks like water…
Hubble Spots First Indications of Water on TRAPPIST-1s Planets
A new study by an international team of astronomers indicates that the outermost planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system could still…
Even Though Red Dwarfs Have Long Lasting Habitable Zones, They’d be Brutal to Life
Two new studies from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have thrown some cold water on the notion that planets…
Rise of the Super Telescopes: The Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) aka Hubble 2.0
NASA's LUVOIR, the Large Ultraviolet, Optical, and Infrared Surveyor, is the future of Super Telescopes. It's 15m mirror will dwarf…
Are Drylanders The Minority On Habitable Worlds?
We assume that habitable exoplanets will have significant land masses, because that's what we have on Earth. Are we wrong?
Vortex Coronagraph A Game Changer For Seeing Close In Exoplanets
A new instrument installed on the Keck Observatory allows astronomers to see exoplanets that are very close to their stars.