Extrasolar Planets
Princeton Team Directly Observes Planets Around Nearby Stars
A new instrument that took five years to build allows astronomers to capture and analyze the light reflecting off distant…
Hubble Detects A Planet Around Binary Star System
Binary stars are common throughout the galaxy, as it has been estimated about half the stars in our sky consist…
Talk About A Crowded Neighborhood: Closest Binary Stars With Multiple Planets Found
The more we look, the more we see the great diversity in planetary systems around other stars. And curiously, planet…
Two Nearby Potentially Habitable Planets Are Rocky Worlds
When Hubble first observed the atmospheric conditions of an extrasolar planet in 2000, it opened up that entire field of…
First Detection of Water Clouds Outside Our Solar System
Astronomers have now determined a nearby brown dwarf has some exciting characteristics: its atmosphere is full of clouds of water…
Life On Kepler-62f?
A new study shows that there are multiple scenarios where exoplanet Kepler 62f could support life.
Starshade Prepares To Image New Earths
In the coming years, NASA will be launching its Starshade, a large spacecraft that will block the bright light of…
Messier 11 (M11) – The Wild Duck Cluster
Welcome back to another edition of Messier Monday! Today, we continue in our tribute to Tammy Plotner with a look…
The Definitive Guide To Terraforming
Where, why, and how should we terraform? What are the challenges, and is such a thing even possible with the…
First Super-Earth Atmosphere Detected
Exotic "Diamond Planet" gets even more exotic with the discovery of a hydrogen-rich atmosphere.