May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... Era of Understanding, ready to characterise these worlds and search for possible signs of life. Just like humans, exoplanets glow brightly in the infrared. Additionally, their host stars are comparatively dimmer in the infrared, making picking...
October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
...a human face. As for pyramids, erosion is also responsible for these forms of relief. The Krell laboratory on the exoplanet Altair IV, from Forbidden Planet, directed by Fred M. Wilcox, production company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; USA, 1956. Exoplanetary...
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...
