What is the Gravitational Microlensing Method?
The Gravitational Microlensing method relies on rare events (one star passing in front of another) to focus light and search for exoplanets.
The Gravitational Microlensing method relies on rare events (one star passing in front of another) to focus light and search for exoplanets.
A recent study from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has produced a new 3-D model for determining exoplanet habitability.
A recent study by an international team of scientists has revealed four Earth-like planets around tau Ceti, a Sun-like star just that is 12 light years away!
Relying on Kepler data, a recent study led by researchers from the University of Columbia has turned up the first exomoon candidate!
NASA’s LUVOIR, the Large Ultraviolet, Optical, and Infrared Surveyor, is the future of Super Telescopes. It’s 15m mirror will dwarf the Hubble and James Webb.
When the WFIRST observatory comes online in the mid 2020s, it will take images 100 times larger than the Hubble.
Since the constellations are based on their appearance from Earth, the Sun does not belong to any. But if you could go to another star system, it would certainly look that way!
Venus doesn’t attract as much attention as other worlds in our Solar System and beyond. But maybe it should.
At NASA’s Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop, which took place last week, some interesting concepts for terraforming Mars and space habitats were presented.
The TRAPPIST 7 have some explaining to do. Are they really Earth-like and potentially habitable?