exoplanets
Weekly Space Hangout: April 4, 2018: Mathew Anderson’s “Habitable Exoplanets”
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier )…
James Webb Telescope is Probably Going to be Delayed Again, and Could Exceed a Congress Spending Cap
According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is likely…
Hubble Sees a Huge Dust Cloud Around a Newly Forming Star
The Hubble has detected a massive dust cloud 150 billion miles across around the young star HR 4796A.
A New Planetary System Has Been Found with Three Super Earths
A team of astronomers recently discovered a system of three exoplanets that are just 100 light years from Earth, making…
Witness The Power Of A Fully Operational ESPRESSO Instrument. Four Telescopes Acting As One
The ESO's ESPRESSO instrument is getting all four of the telescopes at the Very Large Telescope to play nicely together,…
Good News For The Search For Life, The Trappist System Might Be Rich In Water
Scientists have been hard at work trying to determine the densities of the TRAPPIST-1 planets, and it looks like water…
For the First Time, Planets Have Been Discovered in ANOTHER Galaxy!
Thanks to a new study performed by a pair of astrophysicists from the University of Oklahoma, the first extra-galactic planets…
James Webb Wraps up 3 Months in the Freezer. It’s Ready for Space
The James Webb Space Telescope just emerged from 3 months of vacuum-chamber testing, another milestone on the road towards its…
Astronomers Figure Out a New Way to Search for Planets at Alpha Centauri
A mew study by a team of exoplanet scientists has revealed what kinds of planets are likely to lurk around…
Exoplanet-Hunting Survey Discovers Three More Giant Alien Worlds!
Using data from the SuperWASP survey, an international team of astronomers has identified two new "hot Saturns" and one "Super-Neptune".