01 May 2019
Evidence for first confirmed exomoon under question
...These key findings, said the authors, “suggests that the exomoon hypothesis is the best explanation for the available observations.” And... “strong statistical evidence for a roughly Neptune-sized exomoon,” was in agreement with their analysis. However,...
29 August 2019
Have researchers found the first volcanically active exomoon?
...emanating from an exoplanet, pointed to either a ring of material that was being irradiated or more tantalising, signs that a exomoon was lurking unseen in the vicinity. “Sodium and potassium lines are quantum treasures to us astronomers because they...
04 October 2018
Astronomers find compelling evidence for first confirmed exomoon
...been observed. Last year, tentative hints of the same exomoon orbiting at a distance of 20 planetary radii around its... decrease in the star’s brightness approximately 3.5 hours after the exomoon’s planet (Kepler-1625b) made its journey around its host...
October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
... unknown life forms. In Alien the space cargo ship Nostromo receives a radio signal emitted from LV-426, an exomoon located in the binary system of Zeta Reticuli, 39.5 light-years from Earth. Searching for the signal source...
23 September 2025
Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact
... exoplanets… are truly stranger than fiction”. The book’s ten chapters cover everything from ocean worlds to exomoons with “worlds of always winter” in the middle. Perhaps surprisingly for such a light-hearted treatment, it also benefits...
