A team of MIT researchers have observed a Super-Earth using a CubeSat, making it the smallest satellite to study an…
How did Earth evolve from an ocean of magma to the vibrant, life-supporting, blue jewel it is now? In its…
Exoplanets are often considered potentially habitable if they could have liquid water. But the necessities of biology set the habitability…
Thanks to the success of the Kepler mission, we know that there are multitudes of exoplanets of a type called…
Researchers from the Carl Sagan Institute have created a new model for assessing the habitability of exoplanets that orbit different…
In 2017, astronomers used ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array) to look at the star AB Aurigae. It's a type of…
We've found thousands and thousands of exoplanets now. And spacecraft like TESS will likely find thousands and thousands more of…
Planet formation is a notoriously difficult thing to observe. Nascent planets are ensconced inside dusty wombs that resist our best…
Jupiter is the Boss. Well, in terms of planets in our Solar System it is. It's played a huge role…
We're waiting patiently for telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope to see first light, and one of the reasons…