Astronomy
Jun 1, 2015
Distant moons may provide evidence of life beyond Earth, researchers say
Is there life beyond Earth? The answer to that age-old question may be on a moon we can't yet see.
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Astronomy
Mar 5, 2015
Novel method for identifying rings around extrasolar planets
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University of Antioquia (Medellin-Colombia), have devised a novel method for identifying rings around extrasolar planets (exorings). The method is ...
Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2015
Gigantic ring system around J1407b much larger, heavier than Saturn's
Astronomers at the Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, and the University of Rochester, USA, have discovered that the ring system that they see eclipse the very young Sun-like star J1407 is of enormous proportions, much ...
Astronomy
Dec 9, 2014
Is there intelligent life in the universe? 5 questions with astrobiologist Caleb Scharf
Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th century Polish astronomer and mathematician, wasn't the first to suggest that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe—the idea originated with the ancient Greeks—but he was the first to prove ...
Astronomy
Oct 20, 2014
Exomoons Could Be Abundant Sources Of Habitability
With about 4,000 planet candidates from the Kepler Space Telescope data to analyze so far, astronomers are busy trying to figure out questions about habitability. What size planet could host life? How far from its star does ...
Astronomy
Aug 11, 2014
Follow the radio waves to exomoons, astrophysicists say
Scientists hunting for life beyond Earth have discovered more than 1,800 planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, in recent years, but so far, no one has been able to confirm an exomoon. Now, physicists from The University ...
Astronomy
May 29, 2014
Starlight, starbright: New imaging technique reveal planets near bright stars
The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) was built for one purpose: imaging extrasolar planets. In the seven months since it came online, GPI is proving to be an order-of-magnitude improvement-so much so that it may rewrite the rules ...
Astronomy
May 28, 2014
Lunar prospecting: Scanning the skies for moons in other solar systems
The first exoplanet was discovered in 1994. Twenty years later, NASA's exoplanet catalog lists more than 1700 planets confirmed around other stars. Most of these extra-solar-systems have been measured by changes in light ...
Astronomy
May 13, 2014
New exomoon hunting technique could find solar system-like moons
Among the most sought-after prizes in astronomy these days are "exomoons," or moons orbiting exoplanets. Although astronomers have detected more than a thousand exoplanets, any exomoons they might harbor have so far eluded ...
Space Exploration
May 7, 2014
Searching for aliens in the cloud
As a species, human beings are obsessed with the idea that there may be aliens out there, somewhere beyond our planet.
