Scientific American2d
When Was the First Exoplanet Discovered?
So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...
The closest potentially Earth-like exoplanet probably can't host life
Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...
2 newly found exoplanets reignite an outstanding question about our solar system
Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...
Tech Explorist4d
Scientists discover a new Super-Earth: TOI-512 b
An international team, including University of Geneva researchers, discovered a super-Earth named TOI-512 b orbiting a star ...
Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
Knowridge Science Report6d
Webb Telescope snaps first clear images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured direct images of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ...
Space.com7d
James Webb Space Telescope could find signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds
Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...
Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet COâ‚‚ for first time
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...
autoevolution8d
Earth's First Civilization Hunting Telescope Will Be a Piece of Tech Unlike Any Other
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...
Smithsonian Magazine9d
Astronomers Find Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Neighboring Star, the ‘White Whale’ of Planet Seekers
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN10d
Webb Telescope’s First-Ever Exoplanet CO2 Discovery Stuns Scientists, NASA Says
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved a groundbreaking feat by directly observing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ...
Good News Network10d
After 50 Years of Searching for Exoplanets, We Found Our Smallest Cosmic Neighbors Orbiting Local Star
These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...