Could there be life in helium atmospheres on exoplanets?
View larger. | Artist’s concept of an exoplanet with a helium-dominated atmosphere. A new study suggests that there…
Astronomers find an ultra-dense mega-Earth 23 times our planet’s mass but only 2.5 times its size
GJ 523b is 2.55 times Earth’s radius but about 23.5 times its mass, making it unusually dense for…
Capturing the Universe with 100 Times Hubble’s Field of View… NASA to Launch Roman Space Telescope on the 30th — BigGo Finance
NASA is set to launch its next-generation space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, on the 30th.…
NASA’s Roman Telescope to Carry 1.35 Million Names to Deep Space
On July 27, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a memory card containing 1,350,144 names…
Astronomers find four Barnard’s Star planets to be small, uninhabitable, with years lasting only days
Barnard’s Star has four small rocky planets packed extremely close to the star.Their atmospheres probably disappeared billions of…
Astronomers may have detected an exomoon
Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have found evidence of a moon-sized companion far beyond our…
Life-friendly world? In first, atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone
A team of scientists says they have, for the first time, discovered an atmosphere on an Earth-like planet…
NASA’s Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an…
NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Planetary System in New Way
For the first time, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant…
NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving us new insight into the far-future of solar systems like our…
This Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way’s Center
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope has captured the largest and most detailed visible-light image ever…
NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted
One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s…