Google Celebrates NASA Exoplanet Discovery with Adorable Doodle

Google Celebrates NASA Exoplanet Discovery with Adorable Doodle

Google managed to create an awesome doodle on short notice

  • Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • July 25th, 2014
Hot Planets Not Far from Earth Are Mind-Bogglingly Dry

Hot Planets Not Far from Earth Are Mind-Bogglingly Dry

The planets have recently been studied with the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

Watch: Here Is How Exoplanets Are Discovered

Watch: Here Is How Exoplanets Are Discovered

Exoplanets are celestial bodies that orbit stars other than the Sun

  • Space
  • By Laura Sinpetru
  • April 30th, 2014
Finding Extraterrestrial Life Is More Difficult than Assumed

Finding Extraterrestrial Life Is More Difficult than Assumed

The method used to detect biosignatures on planets can produce false positive results

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 18th, 2014
New Telescope Gets Ready to Find Its First Exoplanets

New Telescope Gets Ready to Find Its First Exoplanets

The installation achieved first light just earlier this month

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 18th, 2014
Earth Analog Found Inside Its Star's Habitable Zone

Earth Analog Found Inside Its Star's Habitable Zone

This is the first discovery of its kind ever made, astronomers say

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 11th, 2014
New Exomoon, or Potentially Faint Star, Discovered

New Exomoon, or Potentially Faint Star, Discovered

Gravitational microlensing was used to identify this mysterious object

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 31st, 2014
New Method Allows for Detecting Exoplanets in Old Data

New Method Allows for Detecting Exoplanets in Old Data

NIST investigators improve on existing imaging technology

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 24th, 2014
Gas Giants Could Host Habitable Moons

Gas Giants Could Host Habitable Moons

The plants need to orbit their parent stars inside the habitable zone

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 24th, 2014
Exomoons in Binary Systems More Likely to Be Habitable

Exomoons in Binary Systems More Likely to Be Habitable

Researchers say that the proper conditions develop more often here

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 22nd, 2014
NASA Wants to Image Exoplanets Directly via Starshade

NASA Wants to Image Exoplanets Directly via Starshade

New spacecraft blocks light from parent stars, revealing alien worlds in detail

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 10th, 2014
Planet-Hunting Telescope Turns 5 in Earth's Orbit

Planet-Hunting Telescope Turns 5 in Earth's Orbit

Kepler found more than half of all exoplanets known to date

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 4th, 2014
Life May Be Impossible on Many Super-Earths

Life May Be Impossible on Many Super-Earths

New study differentiates between various objects in this class

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 4th, 2014
Three Quarters of All Stars May Have Exoplanets in Orbit

Three Quarters of All Stars May Have Exoplanets in Orbit

Virtually all red dwarfs have at least one companion

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • March 3rd, 2014
Experts Model the Behavior of Atmospheres on Exoplanets

Experts Model the Behavior of Atmospheres on Exoplanets

The project is very ambitious, but great results are achievable

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • February 27th, 2014
Kepler Confirms 715 New Exoplanets

Kepler Confirms 715 New Exoplanets

The telescope finds several multiple-planet star systems

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • February 26th, 2014
Astronomers Find Water in the Atmosphere of Hot Jupiter Exoplanet

Astronomers Find Water in the Atmosphere of Hot Jupiter Exoplanet

A new technique could make this type of studies easier than ever

 
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