In order to be considered habitable, a planet needs to have liquid water. Cells, the smallest unit of life, need…
Thanks to the Kepler mission and other efforts to find exoplanets, we've learned a lot about the exoplanet population. We…
I’ve said many times in the past that the Earth is the best planet in the Universe. No matter where…
Astronomers using the Hubble space telescope have discovered water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet in its star's habitable zone.…
According to a recent study presented at this year's Goldschmidt Geochemistry Congress, there may be exoplanets out there that are…
A team of Caltech researchers developed a new method that shows what Earth would look like to extra-terrestrial observers, which…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Telescope launched back in April, 2018. After a few months of testing, it was ready to…
When astronomers discover a new exoplanet, one of the first considerations is if the planet is in the habitable zone,…
When NASA launched TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) in 2018, it had a specific goal. While its predecessor, the Kepler…
Astronomers have discovered, for the first time, moons forming in the disk of debris around a large exoplanet. Astronomers have…