Moons of rogue planets habitable for billions of years?
View larger. | Artist’s concept of an Earth-like exomoon orbiting a rogue Saturn-like exoplanet. A new study led…
NASA’s new exoplanet mission shows 1st images to the public
View larger/full image. | This is the first light image from the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS). It…
Bombshell NASA data identifies 45 ‘habitable’ rocky worlds | Science | News
A major new study has pinpointed 45 rocky planets beyond our solar system that could support life, in…
Hydrogen atmospheres keep rogue moons warm for billions of years
A new study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Giulia Roccetti of…
A Tiny Camera In a Cereal Box-Sized Space Telescope Is Searching for Habitable Planets
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) built an ultraviolet camera for NASA’s teeny-tiny SPARCS space telescope, which is about…
Astronomers Watch in Amazement as 2 Planets Smash Into Each Other Around Nearby Star
A seemingly regular, Sun-like star began acting really weird, flickering haphazardly as its light faded in and out.…
How Big Can a Planet Get Without Becoming a Star? JWST Data Solves 20-Year Mystery of Rule Breaking Exoplanets
One way gas giants form is through core accretion, where solid cores gradually grow in a disk by…
Scientists may have found a huge new shortcut for finding alien planets
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The 3-Body Problem Just Got an Upgrade—and You Can Thank Einstein
I’ve yet to meet a physicist that didn’t believe in the beauty of the general theory of relativity—Einstein’s…
A second home in space? This planet is amazingly similar to Earth
Around 146 light-years from Earth, a planet could be orbiting an alien star that is more similar to…
Is a surprisingly massive exomoon orbiting this big exoplanet?
View larger. | Artist’s concept of a massive exomoon orbiting a gas giant exoplanet. A team of astronomers…
Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?
A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference:…