Through the use of the Spitzer Space Telescope, we can now tell that 55 Canceri e, an exoplanet 40 light years away, is not quite the baren rocky environment we originally thought.
The latest estimates of the number of exoplanets that exist within the Milky Way are in. Try and take a guess at how many there are? One for every ten stars? One for every five? The answer might surprise you.
After attending a talk at the American Museum of Natural History last night, we got to ask an actual expert on exoplanets about a few things we’ve been wondering.
A University of Washington student posits a theory on how we might detect moons around exoplanets. This could give us additional clues as to whether it’s a possible birthplace for life. But what should we do then? A few ideas…
Some enterprising and damned creative scientists have used the spectrum of light showing or not from distant exoplanets to determine what sunsets might look like on them.
