How You Could Help Scientists Learn More About Exoplanets
Do you have experience with AI? If so, you could help scientists learn more about exoplanets Experts in artificial intelligence (AI) have been challenged to…
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Astronomers May Have Discovered the Youngest Planet Ever Detected in Our Galaxy
ALMA Makes First-Ever Detection of Gas in a Circumplanetary Disk Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study planet formation have made the…
A Giant Planet Microlensing Event
Over 5,000 exoplanets have been detected to date, with more than 90% of them found by using the transit or radial velocity techniques. Of the…
James Webb Space Telescope Just Proved Its Value in the Search for Alien Life
To search for alien life, astronomers will search for clues in the atmospheres of distant planets – and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just proved…
Webb Space Telescope Showcases Its Incredible Power: Detects Water on Distant Planet
Webb’s Gigantic Mirror and Precision Instrumentation Join Forces To Capture the Most Detailed Spectrum of an Exoplanet Atmosphere Ever In a remarkable dream come true…
Undead Planets: The Bizarre Conditions of the First Exoplanet Detection
30 years ago, the first-ever exoplanets were discovered around a rapidly rotating star, called a pulsar. Now, astronomers have revealed that these planets may be…
Astronomers Discover a Nearby Multiplanet System With Two Earth-Sized Planets
Located just 33 light years from Earth, the system appears to host two rocky, Earth-sized planets. A new multiplanet system within our galactic neighborhood has…
New Clues to Mysterious Formation of Hot Jupiter Exoplanets
Astronomers discover a new way of determining the relative age of exoplanets and prove there are multiple ways these planets form. In our solar system,…
AI Reveals Unsuspected Connections Hidden in the Complex Math Underlying Search for Exoplanets
Machine learning algorithm points to problems in mathematical theory for interpreting microlenses. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems trained on real astronomical observations now surpass astronomers in…
Webb Space Telescope To Provide Details of Two Intriguing “Super-Earths” in the Milky Way
Astronomers will train Webb’s high-precision spectrographs on two intriguing rocky exoplanets. Imagine if Earth were much, much closer to the Sun. So close that an…
New Targets in Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Planets of Binary Stars As Homes for Alien Life
Nearly half of Sun-like stars are binary. According to new research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars….
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Exoplanet
What Is an Exoplanet? An exoplanet is a planet that is located outside our Solar System. While there is currently no formal agreement on what…
Stanford’s Futuristic Gravity Telescope Could Image Exoplanets – 1,000x More Powerful Than Current Technology
A futuristic “gravity telescope” technique conceptualized by Stanford astrophysicists could enable astronomical imaging significantly more advanced than any present today. In the time since the…
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Habitable Zone
What Is a Habitable Zone? The Habitable Zone is the region around a star where the conditions could potentially be suitable to sustain life on…
Hubble Space Telescope Observations Used To Answer Key Exoplanet Questions
A worldwide team of astronomers studied archival Hubble Space Telescope observations of 25 hot Jupiters, allowing them to answer five unresolved questions important to our…
Webb Space Telescope Will Study Formation, Composition, Clouds of Distant Worlds
The journey of commissioning the Webb telescope continues this week with the successful cooling of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), through the critical ‘pinch point,’ down…
Jupiter’s Twin: NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Delivers New Planetary Discovery From the Grave
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a…
Raining Vaporized Rock: Hubble Probes Bizarre Weather Conditions on Sizzling Worlds
Sizzling Worlds Vaporize Most of the Dust in Their Atmospheres “When you’re hot, you’re hot!” crooned country singer Jerry Reed in a top 1971 pop…
