Earth’s own evolution used as guide to hunt exoplanets Cornell astronomers have created five models representing key points from our planet’s evolution, like chemical snapshots through Earth’s own geologic epochs. They will use them as […]
Scientists develop new method to detect oxygen on exoplanets Scientists have developed a new method for detecting oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres that may accelerate the search for life. One possible indication of life, or biosignature, […]
Researchers discover exoplanets can be made less habitable by stars’ flares The discovery of terrestrial exoplanets, planets that orbit stars outside the solar system, has been one of the most significant developments in modern astronomy. […]
Evidence suggests some super-puffs might be ringed exoplanets A pair of researchers from the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science and the California Institute of Technology have reported evidence that some super-puff exoplanets might […]
Zeroing in on baby exoplanets could reveal how they form Twenty-four years ago, Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered the first planet orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system—a milestone recognised by […]
NASA’s TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets – and is poised to find thousands more Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a […]