Planetary formation is a complicated, multilayered process. Even with the influx of data on exoplanets, there are still only two…
In the past decade, the discovery of extrasolar planets has accelerated immensely. To date, 4,424 exoplanets have been confirmed in…
The Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS) has released a special edition of papers dedicated to educating the…
Earth's ionosphere blocks us from seeing radio aurora on distant worlds, but a radio telescope on the Moon would let…
A new study takes a look at how the presence of a surface can affect an exoplanets atmosphere, giving astrobiologists…
Scientists seem to have come up with a new parlor game - how many ways can we potentially detect exoplanets? …
A new study by a team from Rice University has shown that where a planet forms in its star system…
Researchers at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics published a paper last week that just might explain a mysterious…
The molecule hydroxyl (HO) is common on Earth, but astronomers have not yet determined how abundant it is on other…
If dark matter exists, it could make Jupiter-like exoplanets warmer than we expect.