TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
That Starry Night Sky? It’s Full of Eclipses
Our star, the Sun, on occasion joins forces with the Moon to offer us Earthlings a spectacular solar eclipse – like the one that will be visible to parts of the United States, Mexico, and Canada on April 8. But out there, among the other stars, how often can we see similar eclipses? The answer […]
Read MoreDiscovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone
A newly discovered ‘super-Earth’ dwells in the habitable zone of its parent star – and might have a roughly Earth-sized companion.
Read MoreDiscovery Alert: The Planet that Shouldn’t Be There
A large, gaseous exoplanet orbits a red giant star that should have destroyed it. It’s 530 light-years from Earth.
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