It's truly a "eureka" moment for Kepler scientists: the first rocky Earth-sized world has been found in a star's habitable…
Host: Fraser Cain Astrojournalists: Morgan Rehnberg, David Dickinson, Elizabeth Howell, Jason Major, Casey Dreier, Mike Simmons (more…)
Planet-watchers, some exciting news: you know how we keep talking about planet candidates, those planets that have yet to be…
As more and more exoplanets are identified and confirmed by various observational methods, the still-elusive "holy grail" is the discovery…
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Astrojournalist: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) This Week's Stories: (more…)
If the dataset from the Kepler mission is any indication, the most common type of exoplanets in our galaxy aren’t…
Gas planets aren't always bloated, monstrous worlds the size of Jupiter or Saturn (or larger) they can also apparently be…
Host: Fraser Cain Guests: +Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein), David Dickinson (@Astroguyz), Pamela Gay (@starstryder) Big thanks to Nicole Gugliucci (@noisyastronomer) for…
Exoplanets are really tiny compared to their host star, and it's hard to imagine sometimes how astronomers can even find…
If you've ever wanted to know what 3,538 exoplanets look like spinning around their stars, here you go! This is…