Astronomers Confirm Discovery of the Youngest Known Exoplanet Ever
How are planets born, and how do they grow? This is an essential question in astronomy, one that…
Discovery of a second-generation planet candidate accreting onto a white dwarf
Spectroscopic observations HS 0209+0832 was observed using HST/STIS in the FUV on 10 January 19994. Two exposures of…
Scientists Detect Radio Signals from an Exoplanet for the First Time in History
Approximately 63 light-years from Earth lies a planetary system so young that its less than 1 percent as…
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…
9 Things to Know About NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Roman joins an international cohort of teamworking telescopes. Roman will work in tandem with many other NASA-led and…
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…
Memory chips cut power 59-fold, may make satellites 2,000 lb lighter
A custom SRAM-based chip design could cut the computing power needed by future space telescopes by nearly 59…
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…
Found: a rocky exoplanet with an atmosphere — could it host life?
An artist’s impression of an exoplanet orbiting its star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists have discovered a rocky planet that…
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…