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, […]
Unprecedented ground-based discovery of two strongly interacting exoplanets Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been achieved with, for the first time, the detection directly from the ground […]
Searching for the Key to Life’s Beginnings From exoplanets to chemical reactions, scientists inch closer to solving the great mystery of how life forms from inanimate matter Before 1976, when Viking 1 and 2 became the first […]
How four newborn exoplanets get cooked by their sun Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) examined the fate of the young star V1298 Tau and its four orbiting exoplanets. The results show […]
Researcher discusses discovery of exoplanets and his special method René Heller from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research already made the scientific community take notice when he and his team discovered no fewer […]