Detecting exoplanets was frontier science not long ago. But now we've found over 5,000 of them, and we expect to…
While the Earth absorbs a lot of energy from the Sun, a lot of it is reflected back into space.…
AU Microscopii is a small red dwarf star about 32 light-years away. It's far too dim for the unaided human…
Future historians might look back on this time and call it the 'exoplanet age.' We've found over 5,000 exoplanets, and…
NASA has launched Exoplanet Watch, a citizen science project that allows the public to help discover and study extrasolar planets!
In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an international team of researchers led by the University of…
New research by the SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen scanned twelve planets for signs of radio signals when they passed…
Using data from Hubble and Spitzer, an international team has discovered two new waterworlds in one system.
Exoplanets have become quite the sensation over the last decade-plus, with scientists confirming new exoplanets on a regular basis thanks…
Earth is about 29% land and 71% oceans. How significant is that mix for habitability? What does it tell us…