“This is where we live. On a Blue Dot.” said Carl Sagan when the now famous Pale Blue Dot photo…
We have found more than 4,000 planets orbiting other stars. Life on distant worlds could find us in the same…
The search for exoplanets has revealed types of planets that are nothing like the worlds in our own Solar System.…
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NASA's TESS planet-finding spacecraft completed its primary mission about 3 months ago. TESS's (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) job was to…
That's the kind of headline that can leave us scratching our heads. How can you see tree shadows on other…
Using a variety of techniques astronomers have successfully identified thousands of exoplanets, which are planets orbiting stars outside of our…
The ESA's CHEOPS (Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite) mission has announced its first discovery. It's called WASP-189 b, and it's a blistering…
Scientists are getting better at understanding exoplanets. We now know that they're plentiful, and that they can even orbit dead…
The Search for Life can be a lot messier than it sounds. The three words make a nice, tidy title,…