Scientists Confirm the First Direct Photo of an Exoplanet
See that little dot in the upper left corner? It is a planet orbiting a sun-like star. We know of a few hundred planets like this, but this one is special -- we now know it's the first one to have its...
View ArticleQ&A: How to Rate the Habitability of Other Planets
These days, every exoplanet discovery is still rich with excitement, as astronomers scrutinize each distant world and consider its possible characteristics. But this could get tedious pretty soon, as...
View ArticleNew Telescope Optics Can Directly View Exoplanets By Hiding Interfering...
For now, the thousands of potential exoplanets discovered in the past two years are little more than curvy dips on a graph. Astronomers using the Kepler Space Telescope pick them out by examining the...
View ArticleNew Rankings List Gliese 581g As the Most Habitable Exoplanet
Behold, by decree, the most habitable exoplanet known to date. Some people think Gliese 581g may not exist, sure, but if it does it’s probably nice and Earthy warm.
View ArticleNew Telescope To Hunt For Earth's Twin
,"migrated":true}]]The Kepler space telescope (and several observatories on the ground) have pinpointed a plenitude of planets around other stars, but astronomers' knowledge…
View ArticleBillions And Billions: Our Galaxy Has At Least 100 Billion Planets, Of Which...
,"migrated":true}]]Comfortably a few years into their mission, scientists working with the Kepler Space Telescope are now getting deep into statistics. Like pollsters drawing…
View ArticleKepler's Hunt For Planets Outside Our Solar System: The Greatest Hits
This article originally ran November 15, 2012. We've dusted it off to celebrate the four-year anniversary of Kepler's lift off.--EdsThis week NASA announced its…
View ArticleCan Anyone Pay To Name An Exoplanet? It's Complicated
,"migrated":true}]]Remember last week when PopSci told you about a "people's choice"contest to name the planet orbiting the Alpha Centauri star system? And the International…
View ArticleKepler Search Finds Two New Cozy, Possibly Watery Planets Around Faraway Star
,"migrated":true}]]In our solar system, only one world has just the right size, just the right temperature and just the right home for liquid water. Long ago, at least one…
View ArticleNASA's Kepler Spacecraft May Be Finished
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh…
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