exoplanets

Did we just discover an exoplanet covered with water about 100 light years from earth?
Credit: Benoit Gougeon, Université de Montréal Did we just discover an exoplanet covered with water
Could it be: The first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system?
Jack Madden/Cornell University In this artistic rendering of the Tau Boötes b system, the lines
Confirming the presence of an Earth in the habitable zone around our nearest star
This artist’s impression shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting
SETI: A new method to detect oxygen on exoplanets
Conceptual image of water-bearing (left) and dry (right) exoplanets with oxygen-rich atmospheres. The red sphere
A major discovery in the search for alien life: Water vapour exists on an exoplanet in a star’s habitable zone

An international study lead by Université de Montréal astronomer Björn Benneke has detected water vapour

New low-cost telescope attachment allows ground-based observations of new worlds

A new, low-cost attachment to telescopes allows previously unachievable precision in ground-based observations of exoplanets

Searching for signs of life in the habitable zone on exoplanet Wolf 1061

SF State astronomer Stephen Kane searches for signs of life in one of the extrasolar

Meet RobERt, the dreaming detective for exoplanet atmospheres

Machine-learning techniques that mimic human recognition and dreaming processes are being deployed in the search

More than 1,200 new planets confirmed using new technique for verifying Kepler data

Scientists from Princeton University and NASA have confirmed that 1,284 objects observed outside Earth’s solar

Three Potentially Habitable Worlds Found Around Nearby Ultracool Dwarf Star

Currently the best place to search for life beyond the Solar System A team of