Tag: Exoplanet
A Bizarre Exoplanet Breaks Solar System Rules
Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien worlds: their...
Scientists Are Baffled by This Bizarre Lemon-Shaped Exoplanet
December 17, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmThis Planet Is the Shape of a Lemon. That May Be the Least Weird...
JWST Sees Hints of an Atmosphere on a Potentially Habitable Exoplanet
If we’ll ever find life outside our solar system, it will not be an instant discovery. Save for the slim possibility of an...
What Is Dimethyl Sulfide, the Chemical Potentially Found on Exoplanet K2-18...
Is Dimethyl Sulfide Really a Sign of Alien Life?Dimethyl sulfide is in the news after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected...
When Was the First Exoplanet Discovered?
For centuries, humans have wondered if planets exist around other stars and dreamed of what these alien worlds might be like.Eventually technology began...
Exoplanet Census Identifies ‘Missing Planets’ Gap
For centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other worlds existed beyond those in...
Nearby Habitable-Zone Exoplanet May Be a World of Fire and Ice
Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets now in astronomers’ catalogs, the most intriguing yet might be one confirmed last week, a potentially habitable...
JWST Images Freezing Giant Exoplanet 12 Light-Years Away
JWST Images Freezing Giant Exoplanet 12 Light-Years AwayThe Jupiter-like world Epsilon Indi Ab is one of the coldest—and closest—exoplanets that astronomers have ever...
