25 September 2017
Boldly going in search of another pale blue dot
...technology needed for Project Blue to take direct images of exoplanets from space has been developed through NASA-funded programs....share scientific results on Alpha Centauri and any discovered exoplanets. Project Blue will also benefit from being able...
01 May 2019
Evidence for first confirmed exomoon under question
... hypothesis is the best explanation for the available observations.” And what a find it would be. Although the field of exoplanet research started off slowly, scientists have since become very good at finding a myriad of different worlds in thousands...
29 August 2019
Have researchers found the first volcanically active exomoon?
... flowing hot body that is hiding 550 light-years away in an exoplanet system known as WASP-49b. Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s four ...gas we are now detecting in the spectra of a dozen exoplanets.” Of the five systems Oza and colleagues studied, Wasp ...
16 April 2021
Five double star systems potentially suitable for life identified by researchers
... period of the hypothetical Earth-like planet's orbit. The team also looked at the "climate inertia" of a hypothetical exoplanet. “Climate inertia" is the speed at which the atmosphere responds to changes in irradiation; the faster the mean surface...
23 September 2025
Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact
... this book extends the link to the growing field of exoplanet discovery. In it, the author compares some fictional planets in...our current scientific understanding” to reveal that “the real exoplanets… are truly stranger than fiction”. The book’s ten ...
04 January 2016
Researchers find a new way to calculate the pull of gravity at the surface of a star
... of the University of British Columbia and one of the co-authors of a paper recently submitted to Science Advances. "The size of an exoplanet is measured relative to the size of its parent star. If you find a planet around a star that you think...
