exoplanets

Discovering a planet is a feat on its own that not too many people can boast. Now imagine discovering a new type of planet, one that has high chances of harboring life to boot. Dr. […]

Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our own Sun, and for the last 4 years there have been several hints pointing to an exoplanet orbiting it. Not just any planet, an Earth like planet. […]

Michelle Kunimoto is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Together with her supervisor Jaymie Matthews, she combs through millions of observations made by the Kepler satellite in search of new […]

Are we alone? This is a question that we have asked ourselves ever since we started studying space. At first there were our 7 heavenly neighbors in our solar system, and later hundreds of new […]

In June, exoplanet science reached a milestone with an astounding 4,000 planets discovered beyond our solar system. That’s a big leap forward considering the first confirmed detection of a world beyond our own star system […]

The image above shows an artists’ impression of the star Kepler- 1265, with the bigger of the black dots representing its associated gas planet, designated Kepler- 1265b, while the smaller dot represents the planet’s putative […]