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NASA’s LISA Can Pinpoint Some Exciting Exoplanets

A large number of exoplanets were found with the help of LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory). LIGO is quite good, but a significant issue stemmed from the fact that the instrument has to focus on ignoring a large amount…

July 11, 2019 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Astronomers Discovered Two Potentially Habitable Exoplanets 12 Light Years Away From Earth

According to an announcement made by astronomers a few days ago, two planets orbiting a small star 12 light-years away from us could potentially host life. The star, known as Teegarden, is at least eight billion years old, which makes…

June 20, 2019 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Baby Exoplanets Found Pinching Gas from Their Host Star

One of the most common and, nevertheless, challenging way to discover exoplanets is taking pictures of a planet. Most of the time, the images of exoplanets are artists’ impressions of how they would look like. Now, we have the first…

June 5, 2019 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Eighteen Earth-Sized Exoplanets Have Been Identified So Far

At this point, we know of 400 planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, but 96% of them are considerably larger than Earth, comparable in size with Jupiter. The remaining 4% of planets that are roughly similar in size with…

May 24, 2019 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Scientists Found Out Why Super-Earth Exoplanets Orbit Very Close To Their Host Stars

The Universe is full of solar systems which are quite different from the one we live in, and that’s mostly because of the host stars of those planetary systems. While in our solar system Mercury is orbiting the Sun in…

May 13, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Scientists Found Hundreds Of Earth-like Exoplanets Orbiting In The Habitable Zone

Since 1995 when the first planet outside our Solar System was discovered, researchers have found about 4,000 exoplanets. And there are more than 3,000 potential candidates. Last week, in a recent study issued in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists from…

April 2, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

New Exoplanets Discovered, Rising The Total To 4,001

Last Tuesday, on March 12th, an international group of astronomers at the Exoplanet Team, headed by Observatoire de Paris, announced that the total of the known planets outside the solar system reached 4,001. That wouldn’t have been possible without the…

March 16, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Alien Planets With Oxygen In Their Atmospheres Might Not Necessarily House Extraterrestrial Life

The common belief is that an exoplanet which is rich in oxygen, one of the essential elements for life on Earth, might also host life, following the example of our world. However, in a shocking new study, scientists concluded that…

January 3, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Two Newly Found Exoplanets Might House Extraterrestrial Life

A new report released by Science Advances discussed the work of a team of scientists that managed to point out the conditions an exoplanet has to meet to house life. Even more, two newly found exoplanets might house extraterrestrial life,…

August 12, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

The List Of Exoplanets That Could House Alien Life Grows By Two

The scientists are keeping a list of exoplanets that are the most suitable for housing alien life. Now, the researchers just added two new worlds to that listing, Kepler-1652b and HD-283869b, both of which being considered Earth-like planets suitable for holding the…

July 27, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0