442 results for "exoplanets"

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that many rocky exoplanets, particularly larger ones known as "super-Earths," may have massive reservoirs of water trapped deep within their molten cores. This discovery...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been making significant strides in the exploration of potentially habitable exoplanets. Recent observations have focused on a handful of small, rocky planets located within...

Today’s stories range from Odd Radio Circles in Space to Why Our Sun Didn’t Have Sunspots for 70 years to NASA Should Send This New Message To Extraterrestrials With An...

Posted on Oct 25, 2021 in Astronomy, Supernova “After having monitored tens of thousands of galaxies, we know there are other discoveries waiting to happen. Either faint objects, objects that...

Posted on Aug 1, 2021 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science Planets beyond our own solar system were once thought to be out of the reach of humans.  The idea that we...

“The insights we gain from thinking about raindrops and clouds in diverse environments are key to understanding exoplanet habitability,” said Robin Wordsworth, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at...

Posted on Mar 16, 2021 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science News “Liquid magma is actually quite runny,” said University of Chicago planetary scientist, Edwin Kite, about a new study by...

  “Somewhere, on some other planet orbiting some very distant star, maybe in another galaxy, there could well be entities that are at least as intelligent as we are, and...

Posted on Oct 13, 2020 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Solar System, Space “Historically, our assumption has been that the region around Jupiter is fairly empty, cleaned out by the giant planet’s...

Posted on Aug 22, 2020 in Astronomy, Science “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere,” said Carl Sagan. So, imagine a...

Andrew Siemion, director of the University of California Berkeley SETI Research Center, recently wrote in an email to The Daily Galaxy that “I suspect there are other intelligent civilizations in...

Posted on Apr 1, 2021 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Milky Way Galaxy, Science “Plumes of water erupt from Europa and Enceladus, so we can tell that these bodies have subsurface oceans...

Posted on Mar 30, 2020 in Astronomy, Extraterrestrial Life “Our Earth and the air we breathe have changed drastically since Earth formed 4.5 billions years ago,” said Lisa Kaltenegger, associate...

“For a long time, scientists were really focused on finding sun- and Earth-like systems. That’s all we knew. But we found out that there’s this whole crazy diversity in planets....

“For most of human history, the question of whether or not life exists elsewhere has belonged only within the philosophical realm. It’s only in recent years that we have had...

“This is a completely novel way to search for life in the universe. Just imagine an alien world glowing softly in a powerful telescope,” said lead author Jack O’Malley-James, a...

Posted on Aug 6, 2019 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, News, Science, Space Astronomers are planning to hunt for cores of exoplanets around white dwarf stars that have burnt all of their...

Posted on Aug 27, 2019 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science, Space Using data from the Spitzer Space and the Hubble Space telescopes, a new study by astronomers from the McGill Space...

Posted on Jul 28, 2019 in Alien Life, Astronomy, Evolution, Extraterrestrial Life, NASA, News, Physics, Science, Space, Technology What’s buried in the data? “The team is currently focused on finding...

Posted on May 22, 2019 in Astronomy, Science “Our new algorithm helps to draw a more realistic picture of the exoplanet population in space,” says Michael Hippke of Germany’s Sonneberg...

Posted on Apr 18, 2019 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science Over 4000 exoplanets have been discovered since the first one in 1995, but the vast majority of them orbit their stars...

Posted on May 11, 2021 in Astronomy, News, Science What would life be like on a planet orbiting a pulsar? Astronomers estimate that the Milky Way galaxy contains an estimated...

Posted on Mar 5, 2019 in Astronomy, Science The fact that giant Jupiter-like planets are so rare may be one of the reasons why we have yet to discover intelligent...

Posted on Dec 7, 2018 A discovery occurred earlier this year, thanks to Hubble Space Telescope observations, which proved difficult to interpret: the first-ever detection of an evaporating exoplanet. Helium...

“What’s exciting is that these objects are completely different from the majority of Earth-like planets,” says  Caroline Dorn, astrophysicist at the Institute for Computational Science of the University of Zurich –...

“It may still be that Saturn’s turbulent atmosphere of thick gases is obscuring some of the magnetic data, but it looks increasingly likely we will have to rethink the ways...

Scientists are proposing seasonality of atmospheric ozone as a sensitive indicator of life in low-oxygen planets: “We are particularly excited about the prospect of characterizing oxygen fluctuations at the low...

Posted on May 31, 2018 in Alien Life, Exoplanets “There are currently 175 known moons orbiting the eight planets in our solar system. While most of these moons orbit Saturn...

Posted on Mar 26, 2018 in Exoplanets, Space Astronomer Ed Shaya was in his office looking at data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope in 2012 when he noticed something unusual:...

Posted on Nov 29, 2017 in Uncategorized "We all knew from the beginning that the hunt for alien life will be a challenge," says Ludmila Carone of the Max Planck...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has passed rigorous centrifuge testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, simulating the intense forces it will experience during launch. The tests evaluated the…

A new generation of powerful telescopes is set to revolutionize our understanding of the universe. From the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) to the Rubin Observatory, these cutting-edge instruments will…

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's cutting-edge James Webb Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide on Charon, Pluto's largest moon. This revelation offers new insights into the composition and formation of…

Astronomers have captured a direct image of AF Leporis b, a young gas giant exoplanet 88 light-years from Earth, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This observation marks a…

Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected a water-rich atmosphere on GJ 9827 d, a small exoplanet located 98 light-years away. With a unique composition of heavier…

NASA has combined the observational power of the Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons to simultaneously observe Uranus, offering new insights into the study of distant exoplanets. By comparing Hubble’s…

Astronomers have discovered a new planet, Barnard b, orbiting Barnard’s star, just six light-years away. Using advanced instruments, the planet was confirmed to be a low-mass, rocky world that completes…

A newly discovered Earth-like planet orbiting a dead star provides insights into Earth’s potential survival after the Sun becomes a white dwarf. Located around 4,000 light-years away, the planet endured…

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have observed the atmosphere of WASP-107b, a unique "super-puff" exoplanet the size of Jupiter but with just a tenth of its mass.…

NASA has completed the spacecraft bus for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a critical step toward launching this next-generation observatory in 2027. The spacecraft bus, responsible for transporting and…

Astronomers are increasingly concerned about the radio wave leakage from SpaceX's Starlink V2-mini satellites, which emit up to 32 times more radiation than earlier models. This interference poses a significant…

Astronomers discovered a colossal super-Jupiter in the Great Bear constellation, 11 times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting its star 300 light-years away.

Recent observations of the exoplanet WASP-76b, located about 640 light-years from Earth, have revealed a climate that seems straight out of a science fiction nightmare. Known as an ultra-hot Jupiter,...

Astronomers are revisiting long-standing assumptions about the iconic red supergiant Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, as a new study suggests it might not be a...

Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have made a surprising discovery that may reshape our understanding of planetary formation and stability. A small exoplanet, TOI-1408c, has been observed 455 light-years...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission have worked together to unravel one of the biggest mysteries surrounding Mars: what happened to its water?...

Recent studies using data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe and ESA’s Solar Orbiter have provided compelling evidence that Alfvén waves play a critical role in accelerating and heating the solar...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has once again pushed the boundaries of astronomical observation by capturing a detailed image of the Tucana Dwarf galaxy, a faint and isolated member of the...

NASA has successfully completed a series of critical tests on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's "visor," known formally as the Deployable Aperture Cover (DAC). This large, sunshade-like component is...

NASA has recently announced a significant achievement in the ongoing search for planets beyond our solar system, with the confirmation of over 5,500 exoplanets. This milestone not only underscores the...