Extrasolar Planets
Astronomers Scanned 12 Planets for Alien Signals While They Were in Front of Their Stars
New research by the SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen scanned twelve planets for signs of radio signals when they passed…
Hubble and Spitzer Team up to Find a Pair of Waterworld Exoplanets
Using data from Hubble and Spitzer, an international team has discovered two new waterworlds in one system.
The Case of the “Missing Exoplanets”
A team of astronomers with the CLEVER Planets project have developed a model that may explain the mystery of the…
There Could be as Many Water Worlds as Earths in the Milky Way
A new study has examined all the rocky planets around red dwarf stars and determined that "water worlds" are as…
The Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES) Could Detect Exoplanets Within a few Dozen Light-Years of Earth Using Astrometry
A team of Chinese researchers has proposed a new mission to find Earth-like planets in neighboring star systems - the…
How to Search for Life as we Don’t Know it
A NASA-funded study by a team from the University of Arizona has identified possible tools for identifying life on other…
Astronomers Measure the Layers of an Exoplanet's Atmosphere
The number of planets discovered beyond our Solar System has grown exponentially in the past twenty years, with 4,919 confirmed…
A Moon Might Have Been Found Orbiting an Exoplanet
A new study by David Kipping and the Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler campaign has revealed another exomoon candidate!
Astronomers Find 70 Planets Without Stars Floating Free in the Milky Way
A international team of astronomers, using observatories all over the world (and one in space), discovered 70 new rogue planets…
Would Mars be More Habitable if it Orbited a Red Dwarf?
A NASA-supported study by an international multi-disciplinary team has shown what Mars would be like if it orbited a red…