Tags: Planets

In Search of Life, Researchers Find Perfect Recipe for Earth-like Planets

SPACE 01.07.2015 11:53 AM

It's been twenty years since the first exoplanet discovery, and now scientists are beginning to look at what these planets may be made of in the search for life outside of our solar system.

Up and Ready for Business—NASA’s New Horizons Probe Wakes 2.9 Billion Miles Away

12.09.2014 13:22 PM

It was a message from 2.9 billion miles away, yet NASA researchers heard it loud and clear. Early this Saturday, Dec. 6, researchers from NASA confirmed that the New Horizons Orbiter spacecraft had awakened from its hibernation state, and was ready begin the climax of its nine-year trip to Pluto.

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.

What the Taurus Constellation Can Teach Us About Our Solar System’s Birth

11.07.2014 03:52 AM

There are creationist theories, Big Bang theories, and even more temporarily defined hypotheses about how the planets of our solar system came to be, but modern research has yet to find conclusive empirical evidence to show us exactly how our solar system’s birth happened, 4.5 billion years ago. That is, until now!

Binary Stars Merge and Beat Supermassive Black Hole

11.06.2014 19:03 PM

Nearly every Sci-Fi film about deep space has warned about the perils of coming up against a black hole. And if there’s anything we’ve learned, or that astronomy has taught us, it’s that these supermassive vortex’s have quite a strong pull—something most planets and stars cannot bare to go through. But as it so happens, it turns out that cosmic coupling may be one solution for solar systems looking to avoid certain death.

ALMA Imaging Reveals Emerging Planets in Nearby Taurus Constellation

11.06.2014 18:57 PM

Well it appears that the cosmic gestational period is over, and astronomers are catching a glimpse at what happens next. This week researchers at the Chilean Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory have revealed that in the constellation Taurus, that new life is forming—or at least new planets.