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What Kinds of Stars Form Rocky Planets?
An artist’s conception of Kepler-62f, a super-Earth-sized planet that orbits a star smaller and cooler than the sun, located about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. The small...
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No Extraterrestrial Laser Pulses Detected From KIC 8462852, New SETI...
Artist’s representation of a crumbling Dyson sphere orbiting KIC 8462852. Illustration credit: Danielle Futselaar/SETI International The anomalous star KIC 8462852 has baffled astronomers with its...
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NASA Telescopes Detect Jupiter-Like Storm on Small Star
This illustration shows a cool star, called W1906+40, marked by a raging storm near one of its poles. The storm is thought to be similar to the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. Scientists discovered it using...
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Missing Water Mystery Solved in Comprehensive Survey of Exoplanets
This image shows an artist’s impression of the 10 hot Jupiter exoplanets studied using the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. Image credit: NASA/ESA A survey of 10 hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets...
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Nearby star hosts closest alien planet in the “habitable zone”
The sky area in the constellation of Ophiucus near the red dwarf star Wolf 1061 which includes the impressive, but unrelated, star cluster Messier 104. Wolf 1061 is 14 light years away. Credit: The...
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Astrobiology Top 10: Mini-Neptunes Might Host Life Under Right Conditions
As 2015 comes to a close, Astrobiology Magazine is counting down our ‘Top 10’ stories from the past year. At number 8: Astronomers have found that a certain kind of planet called a mini-Neptune with...
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Astrobiology Top 10: SETI Reborn
As 2015 comes to a close, Astrobiology Magazine is counting down our ‘Top 10’ stories from the past year. At number 4 is a story about the renewed quest to discover intelligent life in the Universe....
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Astrobiology Top 10: How Would The World Change If We Found Extraterrestrial...
As 2015 comes to a close, Astrobiology Magazine is counting down our ‘Top 10’ stories from the past year. At number 2 is a story about the potential impact of finding alien life on our worldview, a...
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Globular Clusters Could Nurture Interstellar Civilizations
Globular star clusters like this one, 47 Tucanae, might be excellent places to search for interstellar civilizations. Their crowded nature means intelligent life at our stage of technological...
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NASA’s Kepler Marks 1,000th Exoplanet Discovery, Uncovers More Small Worlds...
NASA Kepler’s Hall of Fame: Of the more than 1,000 verified planets found by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, eight are less than twice Earth-size and in their stars’ habitable zone. All eight orbit...
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What is 10 miles across, but powers an explosion brighter than the Milky Way?
Astronomers studying what may be the most powerful supernova ever seen This is an artist’s impression of the record-breakingly powerful, superluminous supernova ASASSN-15lh as it would appear from an...
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Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet
This artistic rendering shows the distant view from Planet Nine back towards the sun. The planet is thought to be gaseous, similar to Uranus and Neptune. Hypothetical lightning lights up the night...
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Cosmic Encounters with Alien Life
Image Sources: Steven J. Dick/Cambridge Numerous books have been penned on the exciting subject of life on other worlds, and the news almost daily carries stories about potential new habitable sites,...
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Planet formation around binary star
Artist impression of the HD 142527 binary star system based on data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) Using ALMA, astronomers have taken a...
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ATLASGAL Survey of Milky Way Completed
The Southern Plane of the Milky Way from the ATLASGAL Survey. Credit: ESO/APEX/ATLASGAL consortium/NASA/GLIMPSE consortium/ESA/Planck A spectacular new image of the Milky Way has been released to mark...
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Newly discovered planet in the Hyades cluster could shed light on planetary...
The red dwarf star K2-25 is indicated in this view of part of the Hyades open star cluster from the Digitized Sky Survey. The Hyades is the closest open star cluster to Earth. It is visible in the...
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Life or illusion? Avoiding ‘false positives’ in the search for living worlds
New research from the University of Washington-based Virtual Planetary Laboratory will help astronomers better identify and rule out “false positives” in the ongoing search for life. Shown is a NASA...
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What if extraterrestrial observers called, but nobody heard?
Artist’s impression of Kepler spacecraft. Credit: NASA As scientists step up their search for other life in the universe, two astrophysicists are proposing a way to make sure we don’t miss the signal...
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Celestial Bodies Born Like Cracking Paint
The same principal of physics that makes paint and mud crack was at work in the formation of celestial bodies of many different sizes, says a Duke engineering professor. (NASA) A Duke theorist says...
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SOFIA Observatory Indicates Star Eruptions Create and Scatter Elements with...
An image from the Hubble Space Telescope showing debris expanding into space from a typical nova outburst that occurred decades before this picture. The featured research using SOFIA was focused on...
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