NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Telescope launched back in April, 2018. After a few months of testing, it was ready to…
When it comes to naming all those exoplanets that astronomers keep finding, it's up to the International Astronomical Union (IAU)…
Researchers with the UCSB Experimental Cosmology Group recently conducted a successful stratospheric test of their wafercraft, which could be traveling…
A new study conducted by an international team of scientists examines what the term "habitable zone" means and how next-generation…
A new study has placed new constraints on the emergence of complex life, which effectively narrows what what we would…
Even in retirement, the Kepler space telescope is still allowing for discoveries, which include it's "last light" images and recordings.
In 2018, scientists announced the discovery of a extrasolar planet orbiting Barnard's star, an M-type (red dwarf) that is just…
Claudius Gros, the founder of Project Genesis, makes the case that when it comes to extrasolar planets, the rules of…
A new study shows that planets orbiting red dwarf stars may not get enough radiation to support photosynthesis.
Finding planets is old news, we now know of thousands and thousands of the places. But the terrible irony is…