NASA discover a hot, Earth-sized planet located in habitable zone
A piping hot planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star, one...
NASA’s TESS satellite discovers first nearby super-Earth planet
An international team of astronomers led by Cornell’s Lisa Kaltenegger has characterized the first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system.
Located about...
Scientists discover a new tiny exoplanet in a strange configuration
Earthlings have long daydreamed about faraway planets, but only recently have scientists been able to identify thousands of new exoplanets—and to learn more and...
Frozen Earthlike planets could still support life, says study
Icy planets once thought too cold to support life might have livable land areas above freezing, challenging the typical assumption of what kinds of...
NASA discovers new type of planet missing from our own solar system
NASA's newest planet-hunting satellite has discovered a type of planet missing from our own solar system.
Launched in 2018, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or...
Scientists see evidence of Einstein’s theories in star orbiting massive black hole
More than 100 years ago, Albert Einstein predicted that light is deflected by extremely massive objects, but there is no way to test such...
Milky Way’s central black hole puts Einstein’s theories to the test
University of California astronomers have tested Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity in the crucible of the monstrous black hole at the center of our...
Scientists find cold, dry planets could have a lot of hurricanes!
Hurricanes usually mean water as they use warm, moist air for fuel.
However, new simulations show they can form in extremely cold, dry climates.
A climate...
Scientists discover star birth places are rare in our Milky Way galaxy
Astronomers using the Nobeyama Radio Obeservatory (NRO) 45-m telescope found that high-density gas, the material for stars, accounts for only 3% of the total...
Moon has more water ice than previously thought–it’s just buried below the surface
There may be enough water to sustain a future lunar settlement.
The polar regions of the moon may contain significantly more water ice than previously...