Astronomers discover intriguing exoplanet with possible water vapor atmosphere
The James Webb comes through again.
Tag: red dwarf
How Stellar Winds of Dying Stars Are Shaped
Astronomers have captured stellar winds emitted by aging stars in unprecedented detail.
Astronomers may have found a twin solar system thousands of light-years away
Observations suggest that the exoplanet and its parent star are strikingly similar to Earth and the Sun.
NASA planet-hunting satellite finds its first Earth-sized alien world
The exoplanet orbits a star in the habitable zone and may be covered in oceans.
X-Rays could sterilise alien planets that would be otherwise habitable
It's a small chance, but having a small chance of something wiping out all of life on a planet still ...
The reason why we haven’t found alien life yet might be because we’re searching too soon
We might be too early for the party. Darn!
Astronomers confirm the existence of potentially habitable super-Earth
Exoplanet GJ581d is the first potentially habitable world astronomers have discovered, but some astronomers believed that the planet wasn't actually ...
70,000 Years Ago, a Rogue Star Passed Through Our Solar System
Too close for comfort - a team of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa concluded that a ...
New Study Suddenly Makes Billions of Exoplanets Habitable
Astronomers hunting for habitable Earth-like planets now believe that the best place to look is not around stars like our ...
All Red Dwarf stars have planets orbiting them
A new study has concluded that virtually all red dwarfs, the stars which make up at least three quarters out ...
Black hole ripping apart a red dwarf that’s orbiting at records speeds
ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope has found a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the whopping rate ...
Earth-like planets closer than previously thought. Nearest one might lie 13 light-years away
After researchers surveyed data from the Kepler mission tasked with identifying possibly habitable planets outside our solar system they found ...
How many Earth-like planets are there in the Milky Way? Billions, according to astronomers
One of the most outstanding dreams astronomers and other scientists hope to accomplish is to someday encounter proof that extraterestrial ...
Physicists create a supernova in a jar
A supernova is a stellar explosion of cosmic proportions, that often can outshine the entire galaxy it is located in, ...