(THE CONVERSATION) The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple major telescopes and planetary probes to advance this ...
When a distant planet appears as a point of light in a telescope, it's hard to imagine what things are like at the surface. Does rain fall? Is the atmosphere thick, or dissipating into space? How ...
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A Nearby Planet Four Times Earth’s Mass Was Just Found, and NASA Is Paying Close Attention
Earth, called Ross 508 b, orbiting a small red dwarf star just 37 light-years from Earth. The discovery, made using the ...
Researchers at Penn state have developed a new method for calculating the habitable zone around stars. The computer model based on new greenhouse gas databases provides a tool to better estimate which ...
Sometimes, understanding how large our universe is (or the objects that inhabit it are) is a little tough. This is because space operates on a scale that we humans have a hard time wrapping our heads ...
A model originally proposed out of sheer curiosity by a theoretical astrophysicist might actually help astronomers understand the formation of the most common planets in the galaxy. Six years ago, ...
Researchers combined observations and modeling to infer the distribution of cold planets in the Milky Way. The results suggest that this distribution is not strongly dependent on the distance from the ...
Daniel Apai receives funding from NASA, Heising-Simons Foundation, Department of Defense, Space Telescope Science Institute, and the University of Arizona, and leads the NASA-funded Alien Earths ...
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