exomoon
Big Planets Don’t Necessarily Mean Big Moons
Does the size of an exomoon help determine if life could form on an exoplanet it’s orbiting? This is something…
Where are All the Double Planets?
A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society examines formation mechanisms for how binary planets—two…
What is the Maximum Number of Moons that Earth Could Have?
In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, a team of researchers from the University of Texas at…
Neptune-Sized Exomoon Found Orbiting a Jupiter-Sized Planet?
A new study by an astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research shows that the first exomoon…
Kepler Spots the First Exomoon Candidate 4000 Light Years From Earth
Relying on Kepler data, a recent study led by researchers from the University of Columbia has turned up the first…
“Super Saturn” Has an Enormous Ring System and Maybe Even Exomoons
Astronomers watching the repeated and drawn-out dimming of a relatively nearby Sun-like star have interpreted their observations to indicate an eclipse…
Weekly Space Hangout – April 11, 2014: Exomoons, Eclipses & Launches
Host: Fraser Cain Astrojournalist: Morgan Rehnberg(cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) (more…)
On the Road to One Thousand Exoplanets
A quiet milestone in modern astronomy may soon come to pass. As of today, The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia lists a…
Exomoons? Kepler‘s On The Hunt
[/caption] Recently, I posted an article on the feasibility of detecting moons around extrasolar planets. It was determined that exceptionally…