Two Young Super Puffy Exoplanets Discovered by Hubble Space Telescope

SPACE 12.30.2019 09:04 AM

"Super-puffs" may be the last name you'd expect to be used as a description for planets but NASA's discovery proves that super puffy planets exist.

NASA's TESS Spacecraft Presents Panoramic View of Exoplanets

11.08.2019 08:18 AM

In the panoramic view, there are at least 29 exoplanets captured and more or less 1000 candidate planets.

NASA Plans to Re-Visit Pluto Through a New Spacecraft

11.06.2019 08:40 AM

The spacecraft will also be designed with the right instrumentation for sizing up the glaciers and determine their depth.

More Life Out There Than On Earth, Experts Believe

08.26.2019 08:52 AM

Other planets may come with more life than people first thought. Experts think that this may be the truth.

Planet Habitability Could Depend on Its Interior Composition Rather than Atmospheric Conditions

05.05.2019 22:30 PM

Colleagues from Carnegie propose the concept of planetary interiors as the main player in habitability.

Exoplanet Classification Methods & Future Breakthroughs Revealed By Researchers

05.22.2017 17:49 PM

Scientists and researchers discussed the future of exoplanet discoveries. After discovering many exoplanet candidates in the past, scientists couldn’t just stay still.

Scientists Examines Neptune-sized Exoplanet To Understand How The New Worlds Evolve

05.16.2017 01:53 AM

A Neptune-sized exoplanet is also found to have water and clouds on its surface, which will help scientists to learn the evolution of the new worlds.

Scientists Investigate Debris Disk In Near Planetary System 61 Virginis

05.13.2017 11:48 AM

An extra orbital planetary system 61 Virginis is one of the interesting systems, and the international astronomers continue the research of the debris disk in that planetary system.

Super-Earth Exoplanet Best Candidate In Search For Signs Of Life

04.22.2017 04:53 AM

The super-Earth exoplanet was recently discovered that may possibly possess any signs of life. A super-Earth was discovered by astronomers from nearby exoplanets.

Mathematician Said Most of the Habitable Exoplanets Lack Dry Land

04.21.2017 13:06 PM

An expert in statistical and mathematics from Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona has constructed a statistical model to predict the dry land in the exoplanets and he finds the planets are lacking dry land to sustain life.

Venus’ Rocky Exoplanet Twin Discovered Near Dim Home Star; Key to Finding Other Habitable Planets?

04.07.2017 14:02 PM

Find out details about Venus' discovered twin, GJ 1132b here. The possible twin of Venus, which is considered as "arguably the most important planet ever found outside the Solar System" was reported to have been discovered.

NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers 100 Alien Planets And Earth-Like Habitable Planet

01.11.2016 20:01 PM

The University of Arizona confirms this information during the 227th American Astronomical Society conference in Kissimmee, Florida.

Are Ceres' Bright Spots Signs of Alien Life? NASA Wants You to Weigh In

05.02.2015 16:31 PM

From the moment they were discovered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the two bright spots on Ceres have fascinated scientists and amateur astronomers across the world. What are they and why are they there? Scientists believed that once Dawn reached orbit they would be able to learn more about these two mysterious spots, but even now they remain a mystery. NASA has made an unusual move by inviting the public to weigh in on what they believe is the nature of these two bright spots.

Scientists Catch Light Bouncing Off Exoplanet

04.24.2015 00:01 AM

An international team of astronomers says they have managed to take the first visible light spectrum from an exoplanet, giving them yet another new tool to probe the nature of the exoplanet known as 51 Pegasi b, otherwise known as “hot Jupiter.”

Planets Outside Our Solar System May Be More Hospitable to Life Than Originally Believed

01.20.2015 19:00 PM

A study by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto suggests that exoplanets - planets that are outside our solar system - are more likely to have liquid water, and therefore may be more hospitable to life than researchers originally thought.

Could More Dwarf Planets Lie Beyond Pluto

01.20.2015 13:09 PM

According to calculations by scientists at the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Cambridge, not one, but at least two dwarf planets must exist beyond Pluto in order to explain the orbital behavior of extreme trans-Neptunian objects.

New Planets Hiding In the Shadow of Pluto

01.18.2015 15:35 PM

While space agencies and astronomers alike have found that the outer fringes of our very own solar system holds small asteroids and chunks of ice, as opposed to life, it turns out that our investigation of the relatively small solar system is far from over. In fact, a pair of new studies published just this week reveal that we may be adding new members to the roster as at least two new planets larger than Earth are likely hiding beyond Pluto.

Alien Earth with Red Sun Discovered Close to Home

01.07.2015 23:16 PM

Scientists have discovered eight more exoplanets with two planets located as little as 470 light years away that could, in fact, be much like Earth as we know it.

Researchers Reveal Method for Magnetic Field Calculation of Exoplanets

11.22.2014 19:57 PM

Knowing the level of a planet’s magnetic field can be an important fact to know in the study of how they interact. But studying the fields of an exoplanet, outside of our solar system and orbiting a foreign star, can be a difficult task that researchers have not yet been able to achieve. Though in nearly two decades of looking past our solar system to investigate exoplanets, researchers have developed several methods to estimate magnetic fields at quite a distance.