Planetary formation is a complicated, multilayered process. Even with the influx of data on exoplanets, there are still only two…
Life could thrive in the atmosphere of warm gas planets, but only if they are seeded by asteroids.
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has found a new planet, and the discovery of this sub-Neptune exoplanet has scientists excited…
Scientists seem to have come up with a new parlor game - how many ways can we potentially detect exoplanets? …
Author’s note – this article was written with Dr. Vincent Kofman, a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), working in…
A rocky world might not need a star to be habitable. It might just need to orbit a large gas…
One of the unspoken caveats of most exoplanet discovery missions is that they only operate for a few years. Such…
Researchers at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics published a paper last week that just might explain a mysterious…
The molecule hydroxyl (HO) is common on Earth, but astronomers have not yet determined how abundant it is on other…
In the vastness of space, astronomers are likely to find instances of almost every astronomical phenomena if they look hard…