Ten Extreme Exoplanets
It’s almost hard to believe that until the early years of the 1990s, astronomers had yet to discover a planet outside the solar system. Even though scientists were certain that … Read more
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Scientists May have Detected Radio Emissions from An Alien World
Scientists may have detected radio emissions from a planet orbiting a star beyond our sun for the first time. The astronomers behind the new research used a radio telescope in … Read more
SPACE: Bizarre Planet Might Have Vaporized Rock for “Air”
Scientists think they have identified a lava world so dramatic that it might boast a thin regional atmosphere of vaporized rock where it is closest to its star. That exoplanet … Read more
SPACE: heavy-Metal Planet May Be Football-Shaped
An exoplanet may be shaped like an American football due to the mighty gravitational forces it experiences close to its star, a new study finds. Scientists investigated KOI 1843.03, an … Read more
SPACE: Could This Exoplanet Support Life?
Astronomers have found a nearby “super-Earth” exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life as we know it. An international group of astronomers discovered the planet using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet … Read more
SPACE: Could Nearby Exoplanet Harbor Life?
There’s a rocky planet out there that’s very big and cold. Its sun, a red dwarf named “Barnard’s star” looks much larger in its sky than Earth’s. It bathes the … Read more
SPACE: Is There a Large Exoplanet in the Neighborhood?
Sitting about 6 light-years away from our sun, the red dwarf named Barnard’s star is the nearest solitary star to our solar system and the fastest-moving star in our night … Read more
SPACE: Closest Exoplanet to Earth Could Be ‘Highly Habitable’
Just a cosmic hop, skip and jump away, an Earth-size planet orbits the closest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri. Ever since the discovery of the exoplanet — known as … Read more