For the first time ever, astronomers have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet. Intriguingly,…
An enormous laser targeted for shutdown by proposed federal budget cuts has just done some record-breaking science…
Rocky worlds larger than Earth are commonplace in the galaxy, and a few of them may even be habitable. Which poses…
Using a ground-based telescope, an international team of astronomers has detected traces of an atmosphere around an…
Weather can get pretty rough here on Earth, but there’s a rocky exoplanet located about 40 light-years away that…
A pair of new studies claim to have discovered two of the most distant objects ever seen in the outer reaches of the…
Yesterday, NASA’s Kepler team announced the discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet. It may be larger than…
Earlier today, during the announcement of the most Earth-like planet ever discovered, researchers working on the…
It may be a terrestrial planet, but the changing atmospheric conditions on the so-called “Diamond Planet” are…
It is becoming increasingly obvious that our Solar System — with its inner collection of small rocky planets and an…
In May 2013, NASA's exoplanet-seeking spacecraft, Kepler, seemed doomed. Two of four wheels that stabilized its…
Prior to the discovery of exoplanets, astronomers assumed that our solar system's configuration was typical. But…
Over the past few years, astronomers have catalogued several new exoplanets called "Super-Earths," rocky (and maybe w…
The Milky Way appears to be peppered with so-called Super-Earths — distant exoplanets that are between two to 10…
A pair of Chicago-based astronomers have some good news for you alien-hunters out there. Despite previous…
To date, astronomers have catalogued over 1,000 exoplanets — some of them rocky and parked within their host star's…
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When it comes to detecting and cataloguing exoplanets, astronomers have only just begun. It should come as no…
Among the 860 exoplanets documented so far, a good portion of them are so-called super-Earths — planets that…