Browsing Tag
exoplanet
25 posts
The afterglow of an explosive collision between giant planets may have been detected in a far-off star system
A visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. Mark Garlick, Author provided Simon…
New Study Reveals Possibility of Alien Life on Exoplanets’ “Twilight Zone”
Astronomers from the University of California Irvine have discovered that exoplanets within a particular “terminator zone” area could…
Distant star TOI-700 has two potentially habitable planets orbiting it – making it an excellent candidate in the search for life
The TOI-700 star system is home to four planets, including two in its habitable zone that could host…
Water In our Solar System Formed Billions of Years Before the Sun, Scientists Find
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found water in the circumstellar disk of a nearby…
A cosmic tango: this distant planet’s very strange orbit points to a violent and chaotic past
kevinmgill/flickr, CC BY Adriana Errico, University of Southern Queensland; Brad Carter, University of Southern Queensland, and Jonti Horner,…
James Webb: telescope uncovers chemical secrets of distant world – paving the way for studying Earth-like planets
Artist impression of WASP b and its star. NASA, ESA, CSA, and J. Olmsted (STScI) Joanna Barstow, The…
Earth’s oxygen has varied dramatically over time – here’s how our data could help us spot alien life
NASA Alex Krause, UCL and Benjamin J. W. Mills, University of Leeds Are we alone in the universe?…
Zombie worlds: five spooky planets orbiting dead stars
PIA. NASA/JPL Gareth Dorrian, University of Birmingham All stars, including the Sun, have a finite lifetime. Stars shine…
Super-Earths are bigger, more common and more habitable than Earth itself – and astronomers are discovering more of the billions they think are out there
Astronomers think the most likely place to find life in the galaxy is on super-Earths, like Kepler-69c, seen…
To search for alien life, astronomers will look for clues in the atmospheres of distant planets – and the James Webb Space Telescope just proved it’s possible to do so
TRAPPIST-1e is a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star 40 light-years from Earth and may…