Water found outside of the solar system
51 Pegasi b is a roughly jupiter-sized planet around a star pretty similar to our sun. This planet has been part of astronomy conversations…
Category: Astrobiology & Space Science
The Age and Fate of the Orion Nebular Cloud
Stars and planets are most often categorized by their mass. In astronomy, the “initial mass function” is used for this categorization.…
Life Under a Black Sun
Did you know that a black hole is a kind of star? What would it really be like if our sun, also a star, was a black hole?
New Method for Detecting Signs of Life In the Universe
Detecting life on a planet beyond Earth would be one of the coolest things ever! In our paper, we talk about detecting signs of life on…
Dust, Not Aliens, Causing Unusual Star Light on Tabby’s Star
Tabby’s Star, located 1,276 light years from Earth and named for its discoverer Tabetha S. Boyajian, created quite a buzz among…
A space-age rat cage helps NASA study health in low gravity
When the NASA Space Shuttle was flying, it carried a variety of scientific equipment for running experiments. One of these devices was an…
Could Life Thrive on Radiation? Scientists Say It’s Possible
All life on Earth survives because of the sun. Plants use a process called photosynthesis to transfer energy from the Sun’s rays into the…
Kepler discovers the first planet believed to be very similar to Earth
1992 First exoplanet to orbit a main sequence star is discovered by Aleksander Wolszczan. The first confirmed exoplanet is a ‘hot…
Are We Alone In the Universe?
Astrobiology is asking three fundamental questions: 1. What is life? 2. Are we alone out there? 3. What is the future of humankind? “Are…
What Causes Ice Ages? A New Proposal.
A new international study casts doubt on the leading theory of what causes ice ages around the world — changes in the way the Earth…