Exoplanets

Radio waves absent from the reputed megastructure-encompassed Kepler star?

Astronomers at the SETI institute (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) have reported their findings after monitoring the reputed megastructure-encompassed star KIC 8462852.  No…

9 years ago

New Visualization Shows Incredible Variety of Extraterrestrial Worlds

Here’s a great new poster showing over 500 extrasolar planets (about one quarter of the total) that have been discovered…

9 years ago

Seeing Starspots: The Curious Case of XX Trianguli

Ever wonder what happens on the surface of other stars? An amazing animation was released this week by astronomers at…

9 years ago

What’s Orbiting KIC 8462852 – Shattered Comet or Alien Megastructure?

"Bizarre." "Interesting." "Giant transit".  That were the reactions of Planet Hunters project volunteers when they got their first look at the light…

9 years ago

More livable than Earth? New index sizes up the habitability of alien exoplanets

Researchers at the University of Washington's Virtual Planetary Laboratory have devised a new habitability index for judging how suitable alien planets…

9 years ago

Watch This Amazing Video of an Exoplanet in Motion

Exoplanet Beta Pic b orbiting Beta Pictoris from Dunlap Institute on Vimeo. Just. Wow. The motion of an alien world,…

9 years ago

A Place for Alien Life? Kepler Mission Discovers Earth’s Older Cousin, Kepler-452b

Scientists say NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered Earth's "older, bigger first cousin" –  a planet that's about 60 percent bigger…

9 years ago

Newest Planet: Is it Pluto, Eris or Extrasolar?

With astronomers discovering new planets and other celestial objects all the time, you may be wondering what the newest planet…

9 years ago

Everything About Kepler-432b is Extreme, Especially the Way it’s Going to Die

Astronomers are calling Kepler-432b a ‘maverick’ planet because everything about this newly found exoplanet is an extreme, and is unlike…

9 years ago

250 Years of Planetary Detection in 60 Seconds

Early astronomers realized some of the "stars" in the sky were planets in our Solar System, and really, only then…

9 years ago