Exoplanet
Proxima Centauri c: Nearest Super-Earth World To Us
June 30, 2020 | EditorsScientists have announced the discovery of a second Exoworld orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest stellar neighbor to our Sun, a super-Earth highly significant for planet formation models. Read More
Astronomers Find The Most Earth-like Planet Orbiting a Sun-like Star
June 10, 2020 | EditorsAn international team of astronomers has discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet which is more similar to Earth in size and orbit than any planet found before. Read More
Kepler 22b: Meet an Extraordinary Planet
June 11, 2016 | Editors 1In constellation Cygnus the swan, about 600 light years away from us, sits an amazing planet that could have continents, oceans and creatures already living on its surface, a place that is just right in meeting all the requirements for life, Kepler 22b. Read More
The Promise of Kepler-62f: A Distant Earth-like World
May 30, 2016 | EditorsOn April 18, 2013, NASA’ astronomers announced the discovery of a new planetary system composed of five worlds orbiting a star somewhat cooler and smaller than the Sun, approximately 1,200 light-years away from us in the constellation Lyra. Read More
Gliese 581d: Earth-like World Within Our Reach
May 25, 2016 | Editors 1NASA astronomers said they’ve discovered a planet that they believe has a 100% chance of having life on it and its relatively close to us, just in our cosmic neighborhood — meet Gliese 581d. Read More
Red Giant Stars Could Host Exoplanets With Alien Life
May 17, 2016 | EditorsEverything in the universe comes to an end, and our sun is no exception. In five billion years from now, the sun will become a huge orange giant star, so large that it will engulf the orbits of Mercury and Venus. Read More
EPIC-1166: The Most Massive Mini-Neptune Ever Found
May 16, 2016 | EditorsUsing ESO’s world-leading exoplanet hunter HARPS and photometry from NASA’ Kepler telescope, astronomers announced the discovery of a new exoplanet, a mini-Neptune world orbiting an ancient star 385 light years away from Earth. Read More
Kepler have Found 1284 Alien Planets, 9 In the Habitable Zone
May 11, 2016 | EditorsOn Tuesday evening, NASA held an extraordinary press conference announcing Kepler’ last results on exoplanets research: amazingly, the number of known alien planets has just gone up by more than 60%. Read More
TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets are most Probably Inhospitable
May 7, 2016 | Editors 5Last week, scientists announced the discovery of a remarkable three potential habitable exoplanets orbiting around the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, an alien planetary system just 40 light-years away from us. Read More
Meet HAT-P-11b A Neptune Like World with Extreme Weather
May 5, 2016 | EditorsWeather here on Earth can be really nasty, but on distant worlds, the atmospheric conditions can be extreme, far beyond anything we saw or imagine. Here’s why you should not go to HAT-P-11b. Read More
Nearby Three Earth Like Planets Discovered
May 4, 2016 | Editors 2Our biggest challenge is to find potential life-bearing worlds among the stars. Discovering a planet that are not just Earth-sized, but truly Earth-like will mark a milestone in astronomy and beyond. Read More
Crazy Technologies To Better Find Distant Earth like Planets
April 30, 2016 | EditorsFinding a true Earth analog orbiting within the habitable zone of a sun-like star is a sort of holy grail to astronomers and we are about to get a lot closer to detect one in the near future as new incredible inventions and technologies are available to us now. Read More
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