ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceLast Gasp: A Dying NASA Telescope Spotted Three Exoplanets in Its Final DaysThree exoplanets were hidden away in 2018 Kepler Space Telescope data, until now.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedMay 31, 2023Comments (8)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceWebb Telescope Reveals Nearby Exoplanet Has No AtmosphereOn TRAPPIST-1b, it's a sweltering 446 degrees Fahrenheit—but only on one side.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedMarch 27, 2023Comments (7)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceWebb Telescope Spots a Planet With 'Gritty' Clouds Just 40 Light-Years AwayThe world orbits two stars at once and has a 22-hour day.ByIsaac SchultzPublishedMarch 22, 2023Comments (14)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceWebb Space Telescope Finds Its First ExoplanetThe distant world is about the same size as Earth, but questions surrounding its atmosphere remain.ByKevin HurlerPublishedJanuary 11, 2023Comments (4)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceCall James Cameron: Two Distant Planets Could Be Filled With WaterExoplanets spotted by Hubble Space Telescope seem to be a whole lot wetter than Earth.ByKevin HurlerPublishedDecember 16, 2022Comments (17)
ScienceSpaceflightScienceSpaceflightNASA's Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Is in Safe Mode After Possible Computer Glitch [Updated]TESS has spotted over 250 exoplanets since launching in 2018, but engineers are now trying to bring the spacecraft…ByPassant RabiePublishedOctober 13, 2022
io9Trailer Frenzyio9Trailer FrenzyThis Raised by Wolves Season 2 Trailer Is Heavy on WolvesBy which we mean a lot of people—and more than a few creatures—are trying to kill each other.ByRob BrickenPublishedJanuary 13, 2022Comments (25)
io9TelevisionSci-Fiio9TelevisionSci-FiRaised by Wolves 2's Trailer is Gorgeous and Just Creepy as Hell, ManNo goo or snake babies in the trailer, but plenty of foreboding camera work.ByJustin CarterPublishedDecember 4, 2021Comments (38)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceAliens From 1,715 Stars Could’ve Seen Earth Over the Past 5,000 Years, Study SuggestsThe findings could be of assistance to SETI researchers.ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedJune 23, 2021Comments (45)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceAliens From These Worlds Could Be Watching Us Right NowSince the 1990s, astronomers have catalogued more than 3,000 exoplanets using a fairly basic detection technique…ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedOctober 22, 2020Comments (38)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceThese 24 Planets Might Be Better Places to Live Than Earth, Astrobiologists SayAstrobiologists have identified 24 exoplanets that aren’t just potentially habitable, they’re potentially superhabita…ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedOctober 7, 2020Comments (78)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceA Distant Blue Star Hosts One of the Most Extreme Exoplanets Known to ScienceThe newly deployed CHEOPS space telescope has completed its first observations of an exoplanet, uncovering some…ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedSeptember 28, 2020Comments (19)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceAstronomers Discover First Known Planet to Orbit a White Dwarf StarThe unprecedented discovery of a Jupiter-sized planet in orbit around a white dwarf star suggests it’s possible for…ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedSeptember 16, 2020Comments (16)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceTrillions of Rogue Planets Could Be Careening Through Our GalaxyA new estimate suggests the Milky Way contains more free-floating planets than stars. It’s a big claim, but an…ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedAugust 25, 2020Comments (31)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceIncredible Image Shows a Pair of Exoplanets Around a Sun-Like StarThis first-of-its-kind image reveals a star system just 300 light-years from Earth. It was captured by the Very…ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedJuly 22, 2020Comments (9)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceExperiment Shows Some Life Can Survive in Exoplanet-Like ConditionsSingle-celled organisms like Escherichia coli and yeast can grow and survive in an atmosphere like the kind…ByRyan F. MandelbaumPublishedMay 5, 2020Comments (9)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceVanishing Exoplanet Might Actually Be the Aftermath of a 'Supercatastrophic' CollisionA known exoplanet has disappeared from sight, prompting speculation among astronomers that it was never a planet in…ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedApril 21, 2020Comments (11)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceAstronomers See Glimmers of a Second World Circling the Nearest Star to the SunA team of astronomers shocked the world back in 2016 when they revealed evidence of an Earth-sized exoplanet in the…ByRyan F. MandelbaumPublishedApril 16, 2020Comments (5)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpacePotentially Habitable Earth-Sized Exoplanet Spotted in the Kepler Reject PileFor years, a dedicated team of experts has manually sifted through troves of rejected Kepler data in hopes of…ByGeorge DvorskyPublishedApril 16, 2020Comments (12)
ScienceSpaceScienceSpaceIt Could Rain Iron on This Hellish ExoplanetDon’t forget to bring your sturdiest umbrella when you travel to the extra-hot planet WASP-76b, where it may literall…ByRyan F. MandelbaumPublishedMarch 11, 2020Comments (8)