Golden Target: Unique Exoplanet Photobombs CHEOPS Study of Nearby Star System
Photobombs — when something or someone unexpectedly enters a camera’s field of sight during the taking of a photograph — happen every day. Sometimes it…
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Goldilocks Planets “With a Tilt” Like Earth Are More Capable of Evolving Complex Life
Planets which are tilted on their axis, like Earth, are more capable of evolving complex life. This finding will help scientists refine the search for…
Mysterious Population of Rogue Planets Spotted Near the Center of Our Galaxy
Tantalizing evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of “rogue” (or “free-floating”) planets, planets that may be alone in deep space, unbound to any…
Are We Missing Other Earths? Dramatic New Evidence Uncovered by Astronomers
Astronomers studying stellar pairs uncover evidence that there could be many more Earth-sized planets than previously thought. Some exoplanet searches could be missing nearly half…
Nightside Radio Could Help Reveal Details of Exoplanets in Distant Solar Systems
Rice team enhances models that will detect magnetospheres in distant solar systems. We can’t detect them yet, but radio signals from distant solar systems could…
Habitable Planets With Earth-Like Biospheres May Be Much Rarer Than Thought
A new analysis of known exoplanets has revealed that Earth-like conditions on potentially habitable planets may be much rarer than previously thought. The work focuses…
Alien Life in These Star-Systems Could Have Spotted Earth After Human Civilization Blossomed
Scientists at Cornell University and the American Museum of Natural History have identified 2,034 nearby star-systems — within the small cosmic distance of 326 light-years…
Mind the Gap: Direct Link Uncovered Between Protoplanetary Disk Structures and Giant Exoplanets
New survey reveals that the presence of gaps in planet-forming disks is more common to higher mass stars and to the development of large, gaseous…
Out of This World Discovery by Citizen Scientists: Two Gaseous Planets Around a Bright Sun-Like Star
At night, seven-year-old Miguel likes talking to his father Cesar Rubio about planets and stars. “I try to nurture that,” says Rubio, a machinist in…
New Neptune-Sized Exoplanet Discovered With a Substantial Atmosphere Ripe for Study
An international group of collaborators, including scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and The University of New Mexico, have discovered a new, temperate sub-Neptune sized…
Model Developed for the Distribution of Inner Planetary Systems May Help Unravel Cosmic Mystery
Statistical model may help unravel the mystery of apparently single-planet systems and aid exoplanet-seeking missions. Data from the Kepler space telescope, launched more than a…
Breakthrough: Shrinking Planets Could Explain Mystery of Universe’s Missing Worlds
Studying data from the Kepler space telescope, Flatiron Institute researchers found that planetary shrinkage over billions of years likely explains a yearslong mystery: The scarcity…
Investigating Baked Meteorites Yields Clues to Planetary Atmospheres
The gases released from meteorite samples heated in a high-temperature furnace can tell scientists about the initial composition of the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets. In…
Astronomers Confirm Third-Nearest Star With a Planet – And It’s Rocky Like Earth
MAROON-X instrument built by University of Chicago team measures its first planet. In the past two decades, scientists have discovered more and more planets orbiting…
How Habitable Are Planets That Orbit Red Dwarfs – The Most Common Type of Stars in the Galaxy?
How hospitable are red dwarf stars, the most common and long-lasting stars in our Galaxy? Researchers used Chandra and Hubble data to look at the…
Witness the Formation of a Planet: Hubble Watches How a Giant Exoplanet Grows
Exoplanet PDS 70b is gobbling up gas and dust as it continues to build mass. Ever made a complete mess in your kitchen while baking?…
Hydroxyl Molecule Signature Detected in an Exoplanet Atmosphere for the First Time
An international collaboration of astronomers led by a researcher from the Astrobiology Center and Queen’s University Belfast, and including researchers from Trinity, has detected a…
Scientists Have Discovered a Unique and Powerful Dark Matter Detector
Using exoplanets as dark matter detectors: Temperature of planets reveals new details, scientists say. In the continuing search for dark matter in our universe, scientists…
