Search results
Powerful alien hunting tech to be installed on world’s largest telescope
Interesting Engineering· 10 hours agoIt will see the universe in the visible and near-infrared regions of light. Earth-like planets are known to reside in the habitable ...
Scientists call the region of space influenced by the Sun the heliosphere – but without an...
The Conversation· 12 hours agoThe Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. The heliosphere, the area of space influenced by the Sun, is over a hundred times larger ...
Super-Earth Secrets: James Webb Telescope Reveals Unexpected Exoplanet Atmosphere
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoThis artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like. Also called Janssen, 55...
NASA Awards Advance Technologies for Future Habitable Worlds Mission
WPRI Providence· 7 days agoNASA announced Friday it selected three industry proposals to help develop technologies for future large space telescopes and plan for the agency's Habitable Worlds Observatory ...
New Earth-Sized Planet Discovered Orbiting a Star That Will Live 100 Billion Years
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoResearchers using global robotic telescopes discovered an Earth-sized planet, SPECULOOS-3 b,...
Planet-forming disk around small star offers big surprises
Reuters via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoStars about the size of our sun are not the most common ones in the Milky Way. Much smaller stars...
Where did Earth's moon come from? We have Theia to thank
Gannett via AOL· 6 days agoThis is the same phenomenon that happens to an apple’s skin. It shrinks as it ages and dries out,...
How rising sea temperatures are affecting Earth’s climate
The Christian Science Monitor· 21 hours agoOceans are changing as global temperatures increase, a shift that could have huge consequences for...
Boeing Starliner reaches International Space Station: Here's what the astronauts will do
USA Today· 23 hours agoBoeing's Starliner capsule has reached the International Space Station with its two intrepid...
New exoplanet catalog unveils 126 exotic worlds
EarthSky· 5 days agoA new catalog contains 126 newly discovered exoplanets. The NASA publication contains 120 confirmed exoplanets and six candidates awaiting confirmation....