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‘Dyson spheres’ were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they’ve found potential...
CNN via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoNew research suggests stars in the Milky Way give off infrared heat expected from Dyson spheres,...
Watery planets orbiting dead stars may be good candidates for studying life -- if they can survive...
Science Daily· 21 hours agoA new study of the dynamics of white dwarf systems suggests that, in theory, some watery planets may indeed thread the celestial needles necessary to await discovery and closer ...
Coming in Hot — NASA's Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets - NASA
NASA· 1 day agoThe yellow star at the center of this diagram represents the position of the Sun. The concentric...
Life Beyond Earth: Webb’s Spectroscopic Hunt for Earth-Like Planets
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoThe James Webb Space Telescope is actively researching small, potentially habitable exoplanets,...
Out Of This World Discoveries Made By The James Webb Space Telescope
PhotonicsOnline· 7 days agoIt has observed the formation of stars and galaxies, studied the atmospheres of exoplanets, and even...
The 2024 Kavli Prize Awarded In Astrophysics, Nanoscience & Neuroscience
Forbes· 23 hours agoThe Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has announced the 2024 Kavli Prize Laureates in the...
Goodbye Vulcan: Real-life Star Trek exoplanet doesn’t exist
EarthSky· 5 days agoHD 26965 b, also nicknamed Vulcan after the famous planet in the Star Trek franchise, was thought to...
Webb Telescope Captures Massive Asteroid Collision in Neighboring Star System
SciTechDaily· 7 hours agoAstronomers have captured a snapshot of a giant asteroid collision in Beta Pictoris, revealing...
NASA: Even the James Webb Space Telescope Will Struggle to Spot Habitable Planets
ExtremeTech· 3 days agoHardly a week goes by anymore that we don't hear about a new and potentially habitable exoplanet. Invariably, the study authors suggest that the James Webb Space Telescope ...
Does another Earth exist? With 26 cameras and 2,000MP, Plato the planet hunter will find out
Digital Camera World via Yahoo News· 2 days agoPlato's Instrument System Engineer, Yves Levillain said: "Away from the Sun’s brightness we expect...