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Venus May Once Have Suffered A "Moon-Forming" Impact, But The Resulting Satellite Wouldn't Have Stuck Around For Long
It seems a large companion is difficult for a planet that size and distance from the Sun to hold on to, which might be bad news for life on Venus-like exoplanets.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is ready to hunt thousands of alien worlds
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is now enclosed inside its Falcon Heavy fairing and nearly ready for launch. Its mission could uncover thousands of exoplanets while helping scientists investigate dark matter, dark energy, and the accelerating expansion of the universe.
This trippy new 'Star Trek' comic series may be perfect for the franchise's next feature film
Buckle up for Seven of Nine exploring a remote cluster of uncanny exoplanets, strange alien artifacts, long lost civilizations, and trippy paranormal anomalies.
Why Scientists Are Still Figuring Out the Size and Shape of Jupiter
As astronomers catalogue thousands of exoplanets, why is our own solar system still so hard to detail?
Scientists found 10,000 possible exoplanets hiding in NASA data
10,091 candidate planets, to be exact.
A Critical UV Legacy: A Hubble Roadmap for HWO Science Readiness
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will provide the first opportunity to directly image and spectrally characterize terrestrial exoplanets
There Are 45 Earth-Like Worlds Where Aliens May Exist, Scientists Say
Scientists identify 45 potentially habitable exoplanets, using exact data and quotes to guide future telescopes in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Scientists Find Evidence Suggesting Atmosphere On Habitable "Super-Earth"
Astronomers have discovered more than 6,200 exoplanets since the first ones were found in the 1990s.
L’Oréal Names 2026 For Women in Science Award Winners
Dr. Clarissa Do Ó of Caltech receives a 2026 L’Oréal For Women in Science award for her research into detecting Earth-like exoplanets.
Exoplanets Offer Clues to What Lies Beyond Our Solar System
Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether Earth is truly unique.
NASA’s Pandora Mission Begins Study of Exoplanets, Host Stars
Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission and the first satellite to launch through the agency's Astrophysics Pioneers program, is now making unique
AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship welcomes 2026 fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Fifteen early career scientists — spanning research areas from medical artificial intelligence to exoplanets to bug science — will join newsrooms around the country and in Puerto Rico this summer to contribute their skills towards increased public understanding of science and technology.
Optical Vortex Phase Masks for the Detection of Habitable Worlds
A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for future space observatories to pick out very faint habitable exoplanets from the far brighter glare of their stellar hosts.
Six Humboldt Middle Schoolers Get a Week of Hands-On Science at Tech Trek Camp
Local students dusted for fingerprints, built circuits, and studied exoplanets during a STEM camp sponsored by the Humboldt branch of AAUW, with a couple of them already eyeing future careers in…
Newborn Planet Sets Record as Youngest Known World
Elias 2-24 b, a Jupiter-mass planet under a million years old, is the youngest world ever confirmed and is still growing in the disk around its star
NASA is about to launch a powerful new eye on the universe
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has been cleared for final launch preparations ahead of a targeted August 30 liftoff aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy. The powerful new observatory will probe cosmic expansion, the history of the universe, and distant exoplanets.
The hunt for extraterrestrial life is fundamentally flawed. But there's a fix.
We search for aliens on exoplanets by looking for the chemical signatures of life. But without understanding the host star better, we may be misled.
Small Antarctic Telescope Makes An Outsized Impact On Exoplanetary Science
ASTEP, the Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets, a small visible telescope operating at Concordia station, continues making a real impact in characterizing odd new exoplanetary systems.
Scientists Say This Hellish “Day-Night” Planet May Support Life
A new study suggests that even the most extreme exoplanets might not be entirely inhospitable.
Q&A: Dakotah Tyler on fashioning a science communication business
After an injury forced him to pivot away from football, Tyler had a chance encounter that ignited his curiosity about exoplanets.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman space telescope launches
During its five-year primary mission, Roman is expected to observe billions of stars and galaxies, 100,000 exoplanets, and more.
Scientists discover mirror of our solar system in 2 exoplanets forming around a star
Astronomers have spotted two planets forming around a distant infant star, offering a time capsule into see what the solar system looked like billions of years ago.
Q&A: Dakotah Tyler on fashioning a science communication business
After an injury forced him to pivot away from football, Tyler had a chance encounter that ignited his curiosity about exoplanets.
Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts
Searching for exoplanets and clues on planet formation, the Roman telescope will lift off Sunday morning in Florida
WashU astronomers selected for Roman space telescope programs
Scheduled to launch Aug. 30, scientists will use Roman to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets and astrophysics. WashU plays a key role in four new projects.
The balloon mission raising the bar for exoplanet science
The atmospheres of exoplanets have been a focal point of the field lately, with the James Webb Space Telescope taking a look at as many as it can manage. But time on the world's most powerful space telescope ...
HERMES: HiERarchical Modelling for Exoplanet Science
ESA's Ariel Space Mission will characterise the atmospheres of approximately 1000 exoplanets to quantify population-level trends.
Scientists identify 10,000 'impossible' exoplanet candidates, potentially tripling the number of known alien worlds
A new study has identified a potentially record-breaking haul of transiting exoplanets, thanks to a machine learning algorithm that analyzed the light curves of more than 80 million previously overlooked stars.