Join us today as we look at how citizen science helped discover 100 cool worlds nearby and examine evidence contributed to a mass extinction
Aug 15th: Cool Worlds, Exploding Stars, & an Asteroid That Missed Earth
Tag: exoplanet
Aug 13th: Other Planets
Cheap Astronomy sizes up some exoplanets and gardens Mars.
Jul 29th: The Earth As An Exoplanet
Are we alone? How unique is our Earth? Should the hunt for life beyond Earth uncover a multitude of habitable worlds and few (if any) inhabited ones.
Jul 24th: What did our Solar System look like as a baby?
Planets don’t just pop out of nowhere, fully formed and ready for astronomers to study. But question pop up: What did our Solar System look like as a baby?
Jul 11th: Lightweight Mars-sized Planet Found in TESS Data
A Mars-sized planet was found just 31 light-years away, orbiting its star every eight hours and having 55 percent the mass of the Earth, leading scientists to conclude it’s mostly made of an iron-nickel core.
Jun 24th: Osiris: The Exoplanet That Changed Everything
The planet is HD 209458 b, and nicknamed “Osiris” as it is a very hot and hostile world. Lets explore what we know about the planet
Jun 6th: Happy Space News!
Lets take a closer look at the search for a possible planet in our outer solar system & also aurorae here, Jupiter, & Neptune
Jun 4th: We’ve Discovered At Least 5,000 Planets
Taking a look at the last 40 years we went from knowing of the handful of planets in solar system to knowing of around 5,000 planets littering the galaxy.
May 31st: Could This Be One of the Strangest Planets Ever Found?
Recently, a team of astronomers found a new exoplanet, called 2M1510 (AB) b, that really surprised them. This new exoplanet is special — its orbit looks more like a Ferris wheel!
May 27th: Biosignatures: The Search for Life Beyond Earth
The search for life ia about finding out if a planet located in habitable zone and more other information to learn if life may be there.