Newfound ‘Baby’ Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World
Astronomers have confirmed a world that’s less than a million years old as the youngest known planet, using…
Rogue Planets Challenge Our Assumptions About Life in the Universe
In the early 2000s, scientists were scanning the skies for faint objects when they first began to come…
Giant mega-Earth is 23 times more massive than Earth
View larger. | Artist’s concept of a giant mega-Earth. The newly discovered mega-Earth GJ 523b is 23.5 times…
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…
How much more of the sky will be seen with the Roman telescope?
New NASA telescope gives largest view of space ever. Here’s how it works WASHINGTON — NASA is preparing…
Photos of distant exoplanets taken with the Roman Space Telescope and Max-Planck technology
The Roman Space Telescope is designed to directly image exoplanets using complex opto-mechanical systems developed by the Max…
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.…
Launch Dress Rehearsal Complete Ahead of NASA Roman Space Telescope Liftoff
The team preparing to launch NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope completed a mission dress rehearsal on Thursday…
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 may have detected an exomoon
Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have found evidence of a moon-sized companion far beyond our…
Planetary-mass exosatellite detected around the substellar companion of a star
Schneider, J., Dedieu, C., Le Sidaner, P., Savalle, R. & Zolotukhin, I. The extrasolar planets encyclopaedia: a database…
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…