Scientists discovered a Super Earth, a potentially habitable rocky planet with an atmosphere, orbiting a nearby star. This is a major breakthrough in the search for life beyond Earth. This… Read More

A recent announcement by NASA has sparked interest in the astrophysics community regarding the discovery of a new super-Earth named TOI-715 b, located 137 light-years away in the habitable z… Read More

Summary: Astronomers have utilized NASA’s TESS to identify a planet with potential habitability orbiting the red dwarf star TOI-715. Additionally, there’s a potential second exop… Read More

Sed ut perspiciatis unde. Eric Evans will be stepping down as director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory on July 1, 2024, after 18 years leading a laboratory that has served the nation through its t… Read More

In a groundbreaking revelation, researchers have unveiled a celestial marvel that is a mere 100 light years away. The marvel in question is a solar system, HD110067, which may provide deeper… Read More

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WASP-18 b, mostrato nel concept di un artista, è un esopianeta gigante gassoso 10 volte più massiccio di Giove che orbita attorno alla sua stella in sole 23 ore. I ricercato… Read More

JWST has proven that it is capable of comprehensively examining the atmospheres of exoplanets. The first definitive finding of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of WASP-39b was made public by… Read More

What just happened? The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet 700 light-years from Earth. The discovery marks the first t… Read More

Microsoft, NASA, and students from two HBCUs in the Reston/DC area have completed the maiden mission of a new Microsoft/NASA partnership, STEM Educational Project: AI looking for new Ea… Read More

The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has turned up more than 4,000 far-flung worlds, orbiting stars thousands of  light years from Earth. These extrasolar planets are a veritabl… Read More

NASA says the intriguing exoplanet, known as kepler-1649 c, gives earth hope that a second planet capable of supporting human life lies between the stars. Scientists discovered the planet wh… Read More

Here in this isolated corner of the Milky Way, our Earth-bound human lives might seem tiny and parochial on a galactic scale. But the universe—vast, deep and presumably infinite—… Read More

Exactly one year ago, on April 18, 2018, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched TESS into an orbit that has never been used before. NASA’s TESS, or Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, i… Read More

An artist’s impression shows the Jupiter-sized exoplanet Kepler-1625b transiting its parent star with the Neptune-sized candidate exomoon in tow. (Dan Durda Illustration)With a lot of… Read More

//Join renowned MIT researcher Sara Seager for a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how we're readying the technology to find and study planets like Earth.The last time I had a chance to… Read More