Tag Archives: Exoplanets
World’s Most Advanced Camera Directly Images Exoplanets
World’s Most Advanced Camera Directly Images Exoplanets
NASA’s TESS spacecraft may find 1,600 new planets in the next two years
On Monday evening, NASA plans to launch a brand new satellite into orbit, courtesy of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Called TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), the spacecraft is designed to detect planets outside our solar system (called exo...
ESA’s Next Mission Aims to Explore Exoplanets
ESA’s Next Mission Aims to Explore Exoplanets
TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets have Too Much Water on Their Surface
TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets have Too Much Water on Their Surface
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers 100 New Exoplanets
Life may be easier to find on planets outside the ‘habitable zone’
When scientists are looking for worlds that might harbor life on other planets, they tend to look for worlds that have features similar to Earth's. It makes sense; after all, our dominant theories on how life evolved on the planet center on the prese...