Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets: The Discovery of Earth-Like Worlds
ESOcast 96 explores the discovery of Earth-like, potentially habitable worlds orbiting a nearby star known as TRAPPIST-1. Just 40 light-years away, the star’s diminutive size…
ESOcast 96 explores the discovery of Earth-like, potentially habitable worlds orbiting a nearby star known as TRAPPIST-1. Just 40 light-years away, the star’s diminutive size…
A new website funded by NASA lets the public search for new worlds in the outer reaches of our solar system and in neighboring interstellar…
Carnegie Institution for Science has made a huge dataset of 1,600 nearby stars available to the public so they can help find signs of new…
New research expands how habitable zones are defined by taking into account the impact of stellar activity, which can threaten an exoplanet’s atmosphere with oxygen…
A newly published study provides a list of habitable zone exoplanet candidates from the Kepler Data Release 24 Q1-Q17 data vetting process. In our solar…
A team of astronomers view a shadow sweeping around a gas-and-dust disk encircling the young star TW Hydrae. Eerie mysteries in the universe can be…
Researchers from Yale University have developed a new approach to detect distant planets and refine the search for worlds similar to Earth. The new approach,…
A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers have discovered a star surrounded by the oldest known circumstellar disk — a primordial ring of gas…
Data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and computer modeling show an approximation of what various hot Jupiters might look like. The weather forecast for faraway,…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has confirmed the existence of a planet orbiting two stars in the system OGLE-2007-BLG-349, located 8,000…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics take a closer look at migrating exoplanets. Many known exoplanets orbit close to their host star, within one-tenth…
In this six-minute ESOcast video astronomers discuss the newly discovered Proxima b and the possibility of life outside our solar system. The Pale Red Dot…
Using data from NASA’s Juno probe, astronomers hope to gain a better understanding of Jupiter and the many Jupiter-like planets in our galaxy. Our galaxy…
Scientists reveal that a newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable. Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have…
New research from Yale University suggests that simply being in the habitable zone isn’t sufficient to support life. A planet also must start with an…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that the Venus-like Exoplanet GJ 1132b might possess a thin, oxygen atmosphere – but no life…
Using direct imaging, a team of astronomers has discovered a young Jovian exoplanet within a triple-star system. If you thought Luke Skywalker’s home planet, Tatooine,…
Using the MEarth-North and MEarth-South arrays, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the youngest known planet, only 11 million years old, which transits its star…