Habitable Zones Near Red Dwarf Stars Smaller than Previously Thought
A newly published study reveals that habitable zones near red dwarf stars may be smaller than previously thought. The researchers believe that the exoplanets orbiting…
A newly published study reveals that habitable zones near red dwarf stars may be smaller than previously thought. The researchers believe that the exoplanets orbiting…
Using essentially the same type of imaging sensor found in digital cameras, astronomers have captured images of a planet outside our solar system for the…
With the aid of computer simulations of the chemistry of Earth’s own atmosphere that isolate what are called “dimer molecules,” astronomers developed a new method…
An international team of astronomers has discovered eight new planets orbiting nearby red dwarf stars, three of which are classified as habitable-zone super-Earths. The study…
A newly published study reveals that many of the super-Earth planets discovered in the last twenty years may have captured the equivalent of between 100…
Using a technique called verification by multiplicity, astronomers discovered 715 new planets from Kepler data. NASA’s Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new…
Using a new infrared technique, astronomers have detected water in the atmosphere of Tau Boötes b, a hot-Jupiter planet outside our solar system. Water has…
New research from the University of Bristol reveals how circumbinary planets form. Like the fictional Star Wars planet, Kepler-34(AB)b is a circumbinary planet, so-called because…
Data from Kepler has revealed a new Neptune-size exoplanet that is located in orbit around a star in a double-star system 425 light-years from the…
Using the HARPS planet-finding instrument on ESO’s 3.6-meter telescope, astronomers have discovered three exoplanets orbiting stars in the cluster Messier 67 and one of the…
A newly published study reveals that the odds of Super-Earth exoplanets having an Earth-like climate are much greater than previously thought. Massive terrestrial planets, called…
While searching Kepler data for exomoons, astronomers discovered the first Earth-mass planet that crosses in front of its host star. Cambridge, Massachusetts – An international…
Researchers announced that ground-based follow-up observations of Kepler’s exoplanet systems have resulted in the discovery of five new rocky planets. More than three-quarters of the…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers from the University of Chicago have detected clear evidence of clouds in the atmosphere of exoplanet GJ1214b….
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for determining the mass of exoplanets using only their transit signal, helping researchers determine the mass of exoplanets…
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that is unlike anything in our own Solar System. HD 106906 b has 11 times the mass of Jupiter and…
Using Hubble’s high-performance Wide Field Camera 3, astronomers have peered into the atmospheres of five distant exoplanets, finding faint signatures of water in their atmospheres….
Using computer models of the climates and biospheres, astrobiologists are researching how signs of life might look on dying planets. If life does exist anywhere…