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 what the surface of the super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star might look like. However, given that the planet receives only about 2% of the light Earth receives from […]
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 […]
The image above shows an artists’ impression of the exoplanet Kepler-452b, the first exoplanet that was found to orbit a Sun-like star. Dubbed a super-Earth, the planet is about 60% bigger than Earth, which is […]
The image above shows the relative differences in the diameters of habitable zones around stars of different masses. The solid green line within the broader green area around each star indicates where an Earth-like planet […]
In what is being hailed as one of the most remarkable discoveries in the search for habitable planets outside of our own solar system, a star has been found that has seven Earth-sized planets orbiting […]
For generations, mankind has dreamed of exploring new worlds and finding life elsewhere. While the Apollo 11 mission was monumental for being the first time that a human being had set foot on another planetary […]
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