A ‘Habitability Index’ to Help Guide the Search for Life Beyond Earth
A team of astronomers from the University of Washington has created a “habitability index for transiting planets” to help guide the ongoing search for life…
A team of astronomers from the University of Washington has created a “habitability index for transiting planets” to help guide the ongoing search for life…
A new study from the the University of Washington details how Earth-like planets orbiting close to small stars may have magnetic fields that protect them…
New research from the National Institutes of Natural Sciences shows that a previously unconsidered photochemical mechanism by titanium (IV) oxide (titania) can produce abiotic oxygen…
New research reveals that Jupiter-like planets quickly move to orbits close around their baby stars, helping astronomers better understand how planetary systems like our own…
Using the Gemini Planet Imager, astronomers have discovered a young Jupiter-like planet that is 100 light-years away. One of the best ways to learn how…
Using Kepler data astronomers have discovered Kepler-453b – a circumbinary planet located within the “habitable zone.” A team of astronomers including a San Francisco State…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has examined Kepler observations for exoplanet transits around lower mass M-dwarf stars, revealing that the nearest…
Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside our solar system – exoplanet HD 219134b. Dubbed HD…
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered a planet and star that closely resemble the Earth and our Sun. NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first…
Newly published research from astronomers at Cornell University suggests that there may be a new population of circumbinary planets, which orbit around more-compact binaries (with…
Using the ESO 3.6-meter telescope, an international team of astronomers has identified a planet just like Jupiter orbiting at the same distance from the Sun-like…
Astronomers used the Venus transit to make measurements of how the Venusian atmosphere absorbs different kinds of light, revealing clues to what elements are layered…
A new study being presented at National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno shows that Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way are three times…
Artist’s illustration of a star with an Earth-like planet. Credit: IAC A newly published study has shown with high precision that even stars older than…
An enormous cloud of hydrogen is bleeding off the warm exoplanet GJ 436b due to exreme radiation from its star. The huge cloud is about…
A team of astronomers have measured the mass and size of the smallest exoplanet yet, a Mars-sized planet named Kepler-138b orbiting a red dwarf star…
Follow along as researchers discuss the search for evidence of habitability in our solar system and beyond during the 2015 Astrobiology Science Conference. NASA and…
Using NASA’s Hubble Telescope, a team of researchers has detected a stratosphere on the planet WASP-33b. A stratosphere occurs when molecules in the atmosphere absorb…