Exoplanets
A Planet Lost Its Atmosphere, So Its Volcanoes Made It a New One
A red-dwarf star called Gliese 1132 or GJ 1132 for short (astronomers and their fun nicknames!) smolders on some 41…
Vega Might Have a Planet
Vega is one of the brightest and best known stars in the night (or even twilight) sky. Located in the…
This Exoplanetary System Breaks all the Rules
It's just like a normal solar system...except completely backwards. (more…)
We Could Find Extraterrestrial Civilizations by Their Air Pollution
Upcoming telescopes will give us more power to search for biosignatures on all the exoplanets we've found. Much of the…
Possible Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone at Alpha Centauri
Astronomers using a new technique may have not only found a super-Earth at a neighbouring star, but they may also…
It's Starting to Look Like Super-Earths Really are Just Great big Terrestrial Planets
New research shows there is a divide between how gas planets and rocky worlds form.
Super-Earth Conditions Simulated in the Lab to Discover if They’re Habitable
Researchers recently simulated what geological conditions would be like on Super-Earths, and found that a few known exoplanets are worth…
A new Class of Exoplanets can Shrink, From Subneptunes Into Superearths
Mighty planets can be whittled down, leaving behind only their rocky cores, becoming nothing bigger than superearths. While astronomers had…
Exoplanetary System Found With 6 Worlds in Orbital Resonance
200 light-years away from Earth, there's a K-type main-sequence star named TOI (TESS Object of Interest) 178. When Adrian Leleu,…
Astronomers Find a Planet Like Jupiter, but It Doesn’t Have any Clouds
Can you picture Jupiter without any observable clouds or haze? It isn't easy since Jupiter's latitudinal cloud bands and its…