Space Travel Calculator Shows How Futile Interstellar Travel Really Is From Earth's POV
27 Dec 2023, 09:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Exoplanet Travel Planner Calculator allows us to visualize how long (and the amount of resources) it would take to make an interstellar trip possible
NASA Study Shows 17 Planets Outside Our Solar System May Have Habitable Oceans
21 Dec 2023, 07:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A team of NASA scientists looked at 17 exoplanets and found they might have large habitable water oceans underneath a crust of ice
Webb Telescope Finds Methane on Warm Jupiter Located 136 Light Years Away, Why That's Huge
27 Nov 2023, 13:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The James Webb Space Telescope helped confirm the presence of methane and water in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-80 b
Exoplanet Gives Death the Finger, Escapes Its Sun's Red Giant Stage
5 Oct 2023, 07:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A TESS study into 8 Ursae Minoris b, a planet located 530 light-years from Earth, shows it escaped its stars worst red giant phase
Webb Telescope Makes Planet Unlike Anything in Our Solar System Shed Some Cool Secrets
11 May 2023, 09:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The James Webb Space telescope (JWST) gave us the clearest look at a super-Earth planet that's like a mini-Neptune, widespread in the galaxy but absent from Sol
This Weird Orange Planet Has Such Low Density It's Like a Giant Floating Marshmallow
7 May 2023, 00:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This strange planet is the size of Jupiter yet it has a mass just a fraction of our gas giant. It's lowest-density planet ever detected around a red dwarf star
Webb Sees Water Vapor Where There Should Be None: On a Star, Or On a Very Hot Planet
2 May 2023, 07:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor around a rocky planet 26 light years away from Earth, the planet's red dwarf star could be the culprit.
Webb Telescope First to See the Infrared Light of a Rocky Planet 40 Light Years Away
29 Mar 2023, 09:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The James Webb Space Telescope detects the infrared light of a rocky exoplanet located 40 light years away from Earth, first to do so
Earth-Like Planet Hunter Telescope Could Put James Webb Out of Business
16 Feb 2023, 12:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Diffractive Interfeo Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver is a telescope concept that could be used to find Earth-like planets at 30 light years away
Webb Telescope Sees Planet Bocaprins Like Never Before, Finds Water Traces But No Aliens
23 Nov 2022, 08:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The James Webb Space Telescope sheds an entirely new light on a planet called WASP-39 b (Bocaprins), gets scientists all worked up.
James Webb Just Took a Picture of a Very Distant Planet, Far From Our Solar System
2 Sep 2022, 20:50 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / Is there anything so far that the James Webb telescope cannot take a picture of? We are eager to discover the secrets of this universe
Ariel Is the Space Mermaid That's Going to Spy on 1,000 Alien Planets
2 Apr 2022, 03:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency will launch in 2029 the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (Ariel) mission, to look at 1,000 planets
Astronomers Have Discovered More Than 5,000 Exoplanets in Our Galaxy
21 Mar 2022, 20:06 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA announced that astronomers have confirmed the exitence of more 5,000 exoplanets in our Milky Way galaxy - and the number is still growing
Small Pandora Satellite to Open the Box of Secrets of Alien Worlds
2 Apr 2021, 14:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Pandora is a small satellite that will be used to observe both planets and their stars in visible and infrared light for long periods once in orbit
NASA Exoplanet Travel Bureau Offers Tours of Six Planets
28 May 2018, 07:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's website Exoplanet Travel Bureau offers tours of six planets discovered over the years with the help of the Kepler telescope.