Exoplanet

Neptune-sized Exoplanet Is Estimated To Be Very Close To Us

A team of scientists from Penn State recently announced the presence of a massive super-Earth, dubbed G 9-40b. What’s intriguing is that the space object is only 90 light-years from our planet. Such a thing makes G 9-40b the first…

February 27, 2020 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Earth Climate Simulations Support Scientists’ Research on Alien Life on Exoplanets

NASA’s Discover supercomputers are known for their 7 quadrillion calculations/second, day and night. They are also responsible for the operation of some advanced climate simulations to forecast Earth’s future climate. Recently, the machines identified something quite intriguing. More than 4,000…

January 27, 2020 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA Spotted a New Type of Planet That Might Change Our View on the Universe

NASA has unveiled the existence of a new type of planet which could change our view of the universe. This new category of planets, which are thought to possess a significantly low density, has been titled “super-puffs.” NASA’s Kepler space…

December 23, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Two Nobel Prize Winners Were the First Ones to Find an Exoplanet

Back in 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of a planet that’s orbiting a distant star in the Pegasus constellation. The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded on Tuesday to Michel Mayor…

October 11, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Habitable Exoplanet That Humans Can Colonize Found By Astronomers

Should we pack our stuff? Astronomers found a new exoplanet that can support human life. Are you scared of nuclear and chemical warfare, terrorists, rapists, murderers, wild animals, politicians, or mothers-in-law? Do you hate Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Beiber, and Donald…

August 29, 2019 ·by Asheley Rice· 0

Astronomers Surveyed The Atmosphere Of A Midsize Exoplanet

A team of researchers harnessed the power of two NASA telescopes to explore a midsize exoplanet which has a size between Earth and Neptune. Planets of this type are not present in our solar system, but they are quite common…

July 6, 2019 ·by Anna Daniels· 0

NASA’s TESS Discovers The Smallest Exoplanet Ever

A team of researchers harnessed the power of a sophisticated spacecraft in an attempt to find more extrasolar planets. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is an advanced spacecraft explicitly built for the search of exoplanets, and a new milestone has…

July 5, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA’s TESS Exoplanets Hunter Detected A New Sub-Neptune Gaseous Planet

In the vicinity of our Solar System, about 53 light years away from us, NASA’s TESS, the famous exoplanets hunter launched about three months ago, spotted a new, exciting planet. The distant world that TESS identified is a sub-Neptune exoplanet by…

January 15, 2019 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Exoplanet, Found By Spanish Scientists

Spanish scientists discovered an exoplanet of the so-called super-Earth type. It is by 2.1 times larger than the Earth and orbits its host star, a red dwarf, within the habitability zone, also known as the Goldilocks zone. According to the researchers, this…

January 9, 2019 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

Scientists Found A Super-Earth Exoplanet Orbiting Barnard’s Star, The Second-Closest One To Us

W have telescopes watching the skies, machines computing very complicated measurements, and hundreds of antennas listening to the whispers coming from space, but, above all, astronomy is a fascinating science, and a recent discovery proves that, once again. Researchers found a…

November 15, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

The Nearest Exoplanet May Sustain Life

Observing distant problems is a problematic activity for many astronomers. While a planet may look habitable from a far-away distance, the conditions on its surface may be radically different. Even if it is placed at the proper distance from its…

September 18, 2018 ·by Asheley Rice· 0

New Discovery: The Exoplanet which Atmosphere’s so Hot it has Titanium and Iron in it

Until recently, Mercury was considered the hottest planet in our Solar System. The temperatures on Mercury are over 800 degrees Fahrenheit on its Sun-facing side. If you thought those are high temperatures, take a look at what we know about…

August 19, 2018 ·by Asheley Rice· 0

TRAPPIST-1e Exoplanet Has A Dense Metal Core, A Fundamental Necessity For Life To Evolve

Since its discovery in February 2017, the TRAPPIST-1 solar system has frequently been under focus. At first, it seemed that this 39 light-years-far system could house extraterrestrial life. Then came the bad news that there might be too much water…

May 8, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

NASA Kepler Space Telescope Found An Exoplanet Similar To Mercury

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, revealed on Monday the discovery of an exoplanet resembling Mercury. The new finding made by the NASA Kepler Space Telescope will help to investigate the origin and evolution of Mercury, specialists say, since…

March 27, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0