Using Earth’s history to inform the search for life on exoplanets The teams comprise the inaugural class of NASA’s Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research program. The UCR-led team is motivated by the fundamental question of […]
Researchers turn to trees to determine if multicellular life on exoplanets exist Is there life outside our planet? The age-old question has long been asked by scientists and researchers without much progress in finding the […]
Carbon-rich exoplanets may be made of diamonds As missions like NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, TESS and Kepler continue to provide insights into the properties of exoplanets (planets around other stars), scientists are increasingly able to […]
Hubble uses Earth as proxy for identifying oxygen on potentially habitable exoplanets Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have detected Earth’s own brand of sunscreen—ozone—in our atmosphere. This […]
Surprising number of exoplanets could host life Earth. A new study shows other stars could have as many as seven Earth-like planets in the absence of a gas giant like Jupiter. This is the conclusion […]
Do the TRAPPIST-1 planets have atmospheres? In February of 2017, the scientific community rejoiced as NASA announced that a nearby star (TRAPPIST-1) had a system of no less than seven rocky planets. Since that time, […]