Revolutionary optical upgrade enables ground-based telescopes to hunt for alien planets
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Tag: exoplanet
Odd Jupiter-sized exoplanet is hot enough to melt metal but paradoxically pitch-black
It's the 'blackest' planet we've found.
Scientists may have found the first exomoon. It looks like it’s the size of Neptune
It's the best candidate for an alien moon we've encountered so far.
Puffy exoplanet is as dense as styrofoam. The unusual find could help find habitable alien planets
An extraordinarily inflated planet could prove very lucrative in our quest to find other habitable planets.
NASA finds 7 Earth-sized planets in a star nearby. Three are in the habitable zone
What a great day for science!
Tomorrow, NASA will announce major “discovery beyond the solar system” during press conference
It's press only, but NASA made sure everyone can follow the talks and even get a question in.
You can search for your own exoplanets — Researchers make huge dataset available
The search for extraterrestrial life is about to get some new recruits -- us.
Astronomers shoot incredible image of Jupiter-sized alien planet and its parent star 1,200 light-years away
A glimpse from outer space.
Mysterious Planet 9 that’s hiding somewhere in our solar system might be stolen from another star
One group from Lund University in Sweden says Planet 9 or Planet X, as it's sometimes called, might actually be ...
What makes a planet? Finally a simple formula that includes exoplanets as well
There is only one clear set of official criteria by which we class or not a cosmic body as a ...
Automated process finds three super-Earths in our neighborhood – a new way to hunt for alien planets
Using three state of the art ground-based telescopes, a team of astronomers has identified three super-Earth exoplanets that are seven ...
NASA officially starts program to look for alien life
Just after NASA researchers made the bold claim that they will find alien life in less than 20 years, the ...
Most stars might hold habitable planets, researchers calculate
According to Danish and Australian researchers, there are billions of the stars in the Milky Way located in the "habitable ...
Five ancient alien planets discovered in 11 billion-year-old solar system
The ever resourceful Kepler missions just reported its most interesting find to date: not one, but five planets smaller than ...
Not one, but two yet to be confirmed Earth-sized planets could orbit in the outer solar system
Nibiru followers might have cause to rejoice, as Spanish astronomers report a novel hypothesis that suggests two Earth-sized planets might ...
Kepler crossed the 1,000 discovered alien planets milestone
Since it was first launched in 2009, the $600 Kepler mission has discovered more than 1,000 alien worlds. Arguably it's ...
Earth-like planet spotted for the first time with a ground-based telescope
Space-based telescopes have been used to spot planets (even Earth-like planets) for years now, but this is the first time ...
A ‘Ying Yang’ binary system that can sustain Planetary Formation
A group from the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux, France, and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has made a ...
Neptune-sized alien planet found to harbor water vapor in its atmosphere
Astronomers have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a new exoplanet - a planet from outside our solar system ...
NASA reports the first Earth-sized Exoplanet in the Habitable Zone
Artist's rendition of Kepler-186f - just 10% larger than Earth. Remember a few days ago, when I was telling you ...
First possible evidence of an exomoon
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Until just a few decades ago, there wasn't any proof that there were any planets beyond those ...
First images from Gemini capture planets outside our solar system
The bright star Beta Pictoris is hidden behind a mask in the center of the images; a few scattered starlight ...
Newly found gassy exoplanet has mass similar to Earth’s
Artist impression of KOI-314c. Credit: C. Pulliam & D. Aguilar (CfA) A team of astronomers recently discovered a new exoplanet ...
New, more precise method to measure exoplanet mass
In the past two decades alone, some 900 exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - have been identified, with ...
Signs of water found in the atmosphere of 5 alien planets
Hot-Jupiter exoplanet illustration. (c) NASA Using the Hubble telescope, astronomers have identified faint signals of water in the atmosphere of ...
Most Earth-like exoplanet in terms of size and mass discovered
Illustration of a exoplanet transiting its parent star in the observational plane. (C) scienceoffice.org Although the Kepler Space Telescope itself ...
Kepler telescope malfunction might end search for alien planets
Dire news came today. Astronomers, and people dreaming of life beyond our solar system alike all over the world, are ...
Alien planet spotted using Einstein’s theory of relativity
Artist impression of Kepler-76b orbiting around its parent star. The planet was discovered after relativistic effects were observed. The star ...
Most promising Earth-like planets found by Kepler
An artist's impression of a sunrise on Kepler 62f. (c) American Association for the Advancement of Science The ever resourceful ...
First remote reconnaissance of another solar systems reveals unlike “any other known object in our Universe”
Researchers have for the first time conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant planetary system with a new telescope imaging ...
Alien life hunters hold white dwarf stars as safest bet
Though hundreds of potentially life harboring exoplanets have been discovered thus far, until the James Webb Space Telescope becomes operational, ...
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 ...
Technique that allows mapping of distant worlds might allow us to find the next Earth
EPOXI mission image shows what an Earth-like exoplanet might look like from afar. (c) NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD/GSFC The Kepler mission has proven ...
Super-earth planets might have a magnetic field from liquid metals
Of the hundreds of exoplanets discovered thus far, many of them are classed as super-Earths, planets with a mass up ...
New super-Earth exoplanet is a mere 46 light-years away
Astronomers have used a novel planet hunter instrument to detect a new possible life supporting, Earth-like exoplanet. In fact the ...
European Observatory (ESO) assembles 9 gigapixel image with 84 million stars
The European Southern Observatory has captured and analyzed an image of the center of our galaxy which, if printed at ...
New ESA planet-hunter space telescope slated for 2017
The European Space Agency has officially announced that it will launch a new space telescope tasked with the primary objective ...
Newly discovered solar system is very similar to our own
Artist impression of the Kepler-30 solar system, complete with its planets' orbits. (c) Cristina Sanchis Ojeda Researchers at MIT, the ...
Venus at its brightest this week, while Venus transit marks once in a life time opportunity next month
Summer is set to kick-off with a series of beautiful Venus related events, from an astronomical point of view at ...
Turns out, another solar system has more planets than ours
Our solar system is special for two reasons: the first one, obviously - is us. Our solar system is the ...
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 ...
“Water-world” alien planet confirmed by Hubble
The hunt for the second Earth, a similar life-bearing paradise like our own, rages on, and while no candidate came ...
Newly discovered “super-Earth” planet might support life
The hunt for finding another Earth is making progress every day, as scientists are constantly adding new viable candidates to ...
Kepler’s hunt for Earth-like planets
In our very own Milky Way galaxy alone, astronomers estimate there are between 200 billion and 400 billion stars. Of ...
Two new exoplanets spotted by astro gamers
This news couldn't have come any sooner. It was just last week that we reported how gamers made a monumental ...
Astronomers find best candidate for Earth-like planet, only 38 light years away
Artist impression of HD 85512b, a viable candidate for the first Earth-like planet to be discovered. (c) Kornmesser/Eso The HARPS ...
Beautiful exoplanet aurorae 1000 times brighter than on Earth
There are few more dazzling sights in the world than that of the great Norther Lights, and in a exercise ...
Earth-like planet may not exist
After an exciting discovery of a habitable earth-like planet, skepticism settles back in as a second team of scientists casts ...