Exoplanet
March 12, 2019
Orbits are getting a bit less mysterious. The explosion of exoplanet discoveries in the last decade has boosted our hopes of finding another world like Earth […]
February 5, 2019
Even in space, bureaucracy exists. In 2006, Pluto was reclassified as a “dwarf planet.” This had two main effects on our solar system: it reduced the number of […]
January 20, 2019
A recent article in EOS.org outlines a strategy proposed by NASA/Ames/SETI Institute/JPL:-Caltech to study our relative uniqueness in the universe. A combination of major efforts and individual studies would […]
October 4, 2018
Nearly eight thousand light-years away from Earth, there’s a star about the same size as our sun. Like our own solar system, that distant star is […]
September 24, 2018
How does NASA search for new planets, and how do they find them? Sometimes we take for granted all the things we know about our solar […]
September 21, 2018
It’s a tough call–how do we balance our crying needs here on Earth for peace and enough water to drink with our need to enrich our human […]
August 27, 2018
Ever since the first exoplanet was confirmed in 1992, astronomers have found thousands of worlds beyond our Solar System. With more and more discoveries happening all […]