Scientists Simulated the Universe – And Discovered the Milky Way May Be One of the Best Places for Life
Galaxy evolution in an EAGLE simulation. Credit: The EAGLE project/Durham University Galaxy simulations suggest the Milky Way offers…
A 171-Year-Old Planetary Mystery Just Took a Surprising Turn
70 Ophiuchi AB was first identified as a binary star system in the late 1700s by the German…
Earth May Not Be a Cosmic Fluke, New Simulations Suggest
This artist’s impression shows the temperate planet Ross 128 b, with its red dwarf parent star in the…
Astronomers Detect an Atmosphere on a Potentially Earth-Like World
In this artist’s concept, the exoplanet LHS 1140 b is shown in the foreground, surrounded by a helium-rich…
Nearby “Super Earth” May Be A Better Candidate For Life Than Previously Thought
[UT Austin] Using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory, astronomers have taken a closer look at a nearby…
Astronomers Find Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Just 25 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet about twice Earth’s size just 25 light-years away, orbiting in the habitable…
Reflections of Life: Distinguishing Living from Nonliving Worlds with Complexity Metrics
Biosignatures & Paleobiology Status Report The Astronomical Journal June 14, 2026 Analysis pipeline employed in the present work.…
Connecting Polarization To Exoplanet Yield Calculations For Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
Overview of the simulation pipeline components used in this work. The modeling begins with hwo pol, a Poke…
Predictive Rankings of the Probability for Temperate Terrestrial Worlds for the HWO ExEP Mission Star List
The simulated occurrence rates of planets in both simulated (blue) and known (orange) planetary systems around nearby stars.…
NASA’s Roman Mission Preps to Unveil New Populations of Faraway Worlds
This plot shows currently known exoplanets, with different categories highlighted. Roman will help fill in the bottom-right of…
Maximum Lifetime Of The Vegetative Biosphere
ExoCAM simulations of Earth from the present up to 2.0 Gyr in the future, assuming CO2 remains fixed…
Flare-driven Habitability: Expanding Life’s Potential Around Low-mass Stars
Graphical Abstract — Cell The traditional definition of the circumstellar habitable zone (HZ) focuses on liquid water, but…