Scientists studying so-called ‘flammable ice’ in the Sea of Japan have made a startling discovery—the existence of life within microscopic bubbles.
The search for potentially-habitable planets has heated up in recent years, and it’s only going to get hotter as the decade unfolds!
Astronomers have detected five new planets, eight planet candidates, and confirmed three previously reported planets, around nine nearby M-dwarf (red dwarf) stars. Among the new planets, Gliese 180d and Gliese 229Ac are super-Earths located in the conservative habitable zones of their host stars; Gliese 433c is a cold super-Neptune candidate belonging to an unexplored population of Neptune-like planets.
Wolf Cukier, 17, discovered a planet 6.9 times larger than Earth and only the 13th of its kind
TOI 700 d is a landmark discovery for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, the agency’s Spitzer Space Telescope and other facilities, astronomers have discovered a compact system of three small planets orbiting around the cool M-dwarf star TOI-700. One of these planets, named TOI-700d, has a radius of 1.1 times that of the Earth and orbits within the conservative habitable zone of its host star.
Planets, asteroids and Arrokoth were the focus of new discoveries
When astronomers discovered the first exoplanet around a normal star 2 decades ago, there was joy—and bewilderment.
The exotic system provides a preview of our own solar system’s fate.
These “horrifyingly inhospitable planets” make outer space very spooky.
