Moons May Yield Clues to What Makes Planets Habitable for Life
In the search for Earth-like planets, University of Rochester scientist Miki Nakajima turns to computer simulations of moon formations. Earth’s moon is vitally important in…
Exomoon
New Observations May Finally Explain the Mysterious Fading of Tabby’s Star
A Columbia study suggests chunks of an exomoon’s dusty outer layers of ice, gas and carbonaceous rock may be accumulating in a disk surrounding star….
Exomoons Likely Play a Significant Role in White Dwarf Pollution
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics identifies exomoons as a likely source of the apparent accretion of rocky material onto some white dwarf…
New Exomoon Detection Technique Could Find Solar System-Like Moons
A new exomoon detection technique is the first method that has been demonstrated to allow detection of moons akin to those in the Solar System….
Researchers Discover the First Exomoon Candidate
By using gravitational microlensing and taking advantage of chance alignments between stars, an international team of researchers has spotted the first signs of an exomoon….
