First transiting exoplanet’s ‘chemical fingerprint’ reveals its distant birthplace Astronomers have found evidence that the first exoplanet that was identified transiting its star could have migrated to a close orbit with its star from its […]
High schoolers discover four exoplanets through Harvard and Smithsonian mentorship program They may be the youngest astronomers to make a discovery yet. This week, 16-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright have co-authored a peer-reviewed […]
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 […]