Extra Solar Planets
Could We Detect an Ancient Industrial Civilization in the Geological Record?
According to a new study by a team of researchers, it is possible that we might find evidence of another…
Proxima Centauri Just Released a Flare so Powerful it was Visible to the Unaided Eye. Planets There Would Get Scorched
According to a new study, Proxima Centauri experiences superflare activity that would likely render its exoplanet (Proxima b) uninhabitable
A New Extrasolar Planet Has The Composition of Mercury, but 2.5 Times the Mass of Earth
A team of international astronomers recently discovered a Super Earth with a similar composition of Mercury, and is several times…
Proxima Centauri Just Released a Deadly Flare, so it’s Probably not a Great Place for Habitable Planets
A new study recorded a massive flare coming from Proxima Centauri, a finding which casts doubt on it having any…
Researchers Just Scanned 14 Worlds From the Kepler Mission for “Technosignatures”, Evidence of Advanced Civilizations
In the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a team of astronomers recently searched through the Kepler field to look for…
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…
The New Earth-Sized Planet Hunting Telescope ExTrA is Now Online
The Exoplanets in Transits and their Atmospheres (ExTrA), just went online and is now searching for exoplanets around red dwarf…
What is the Gravitational Microlensing Method?
The Gravitational Microlensing method relies on rare events (one star passing in front of another) to focus light and search…
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…
Astronomers Find Another Solar System with 8 Planets. Uh, Pluto, About that Deplaneting…
A research team recently applied a Google "neural net" to Kepler data, which conformed the existence of a star system…