NASA’s high-powered planet hunting satellite is now searching for alien worlds
Way back in April, NASA finally managed to launch TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. TESS is the latest weapon in NASA’s arsenal that is …
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Nearby exoplanet Ross 128 b is looking more and more like Earth’s bigger cousin
Exoplanet discoveries have been coming fast and furious for several years now, thanks in large part to increasingly power telescope technology that allows us to …
Astronomers spot a trio of Earth-sized planets orbiting a distant star
Humanity is going to have to leave Earth eventually. We’ve already messed up our planet pretty badly, and even if we don’t push the Earth …
Astronomers discovery trio of gas giant planets orbiting distant stars
SpaceX’s launch of NASA’s exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite may have been delayed, but that’s not stopping scientists from using the hardware they already have to make …
Free-floating ‘rogue’ moons may be incredibly common in the universe
Earth’s nearest neighbor, the Moon, is a pretty reliable partner. As far as scientists know, the Moon originated during or shortly after the formation of …
Our nearest exoplanet neighbor, and any life living there, just got blasted by radiation from its star
Humanity’s romantic notion that extraterrestrial life might be lurking just beyond our reach has been dealt a serious blow. A new study published in Astrophysical …
NASA just discovered nearly 100 new alien planets as the search for life heats up
NASA’s Kepler space telescope was launched for the purpose of finding new objects, like planets, far off in space, and it has done its job …
The search for alien life was just dealt a massive blow
With the incredible number of galaxies that mankind can observe from its tiny little perch here in the Milky Way, we know there are an …
If there’s life on one of the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets, that could mean there’s life on all of them
The discovery of seven new exoplanets orbiting the relatively nearby star TRAPPIST-1 is exciting, and the fact that three of those planets are considered to be …
These 121 pixels are so much more interesting than you think
Space news moves pretty fast, which is why you’ve probably already forgotten about the extremely cool discovery NASA and astronomers from around the world announced …
