exoplanet
Smile! This Could Be The Lightest Alien Planet Ever Captured On Camera
We've found hundreds of planets outside the solar system, but taking a picture of one is still something quite special.…
Rocky Alien Planets: What The Heck Is On Their Surfaces?
We don't have the budget yet to send Star Trek's U.S.S. Enterprise to probe the surface of strange new worlds,…
How Do You Measure A Planet Near A Tiny Star?
When you sit back and think about how far away exoplanets are -- and how faint -- it's a scientific…
How To Crowdsource Astronomy Without People Messing It Up
Maybe it's because Jurassic Park is in theaters again, but we at Universe Today sometimes worry about how one person…
Astronomers Find Tantalizing Hints of a Potentially Habitable Exoplanet
Dwarf star HD 40307 is now thought to host at least 6 exoplanet candidates... one of them well within its…
Nearby Exoplanet Could Be Covered With Diamond
Illustration of 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth that's thought to have a thick layer of diamond (Yale News/Haven Giguere) If…
Will This Be The Fate Of The Earth?
[/caption] Astronomers have found four nearby white dwarf stars surrounded by disks of material that could be the remains of…
An Exoplanet’s Auroral Engine
Located 880 light-years away, a massive gas giant called CoRoT-2b orbits its star at a mere 2 million miles –…
Planetary Habitability Index Proposes A Less “Earth-Centric” View In Search Of Life
[/caption] It's a given. It won't be long until human technology will expand our repertoire of cataloged exoplanets to astronomical…
Shedding Some Light on a Dark Discovery
[/caption] Earlier this month astronomers released news of the darkest exoplanet ever seen: discovered in 2006, the gas giant TrES-2b…