TESS spots closest super-Earth that could be habitable
New Atlas - Thu 1 Aug 19NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has been very busy lately. Back in April, the satellite discovered its first Earth-sized planet, in early July it found three ...
New exoplanet is smallest to be precisely measured
Phys.org - Wed 31 Jul 19Earthlings have long daydreamed about faraway planets, but only recently have scientists been able to identify thousands of new exoplanets—and to learn more and more about what they look like.
Snowball planets may still have habitable hotspots
New Atlas - Wed 31 Jul 19When looking for other planets that could be hosting life, astronomers tend to focus on those that are very Earth-like. But doing so might be limiting our scope too much and underselling ...
Cheops passes final review before shipment to launch site
Phys.org - Tue 30 Jul 19The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, has successfully passed the final analysis review for its launch on a Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Cheops passes final review before shipment to launch site, ESA - Mon 29 Jul 19Exoplanet-hunting telescope discovers three new alien worlds with big scientific potential
New Atlas - Mon 29 Jul 19NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a set of three worlds orbiting a peaceful star located a mere 73 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Pictor. ...
Nasa discovers planet unlike any in our solar system
The Independent - Mon 29 Jul 19New planet is part of 'a true Disneyland' for researchers looking for alien worlds, scientists say
TESS completes survey of southern sky, marking halfway mark of mission
New Atlas - Sun 28 Jul 19NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is halfway through its two-year primary mission and has completed its survey of the southern sky in its search for extrasolar planets. ...
SpaceX 'Starhopper' rocket tests ends in spectacular flames
The Independent - Thu 25 Jul 19Rocket was supposed to hop off the ground – but stayed put, and became engulfed by fire
The Milky Way Cannibalized a Neighboring Galaxy
Discover Magazine - Mon 22 Jul 19By pinpointing the ages and origins of stars in the Milky Way, astronomers can trace its history. (Credit: Koppelman, Villalobos and Helmi/NASA/ESA/Hubble) Ten billion years ago, the Milky ...
The Milky Way cannibalized a neighboring galaxy, Astronomy.com - Mon 22 Jul 19Astronomers decode Milky Way's violent birth
Phys.org - Mon 22 Jul 19The Milky Way gobbled up a galaxy one quarter of its mass 10 billion years ago in a "violent collision" that didn't fully settle for eons, astronomers said in new research published Monday.
The Milky Way devoured another galaxy and we've spotted the remains
Newscientist - Mon 22 Jul 19We’ve identified the original stars that were in the Milky Way before it devoured another smaller galaxy called Gaia-Enceladus about 10 billion years ago
10 billion years ago, the Milky Way ate Gaia
Cosmos Magazine - Mon 22 Jul 19Modelling reveals the timing of a titanic encounter. Barry Keily reports.
Strange stars that go supernova may be dimming because of dark matter
Newscientist - Mon 22 Jul 19Some stars that go supernova are dimmer than we expect, so something must be filching their energy - it may be a possible dark matter particle called the axion
Milky Way cannibalised entire galaxy 10 billion years ago, scientists say
The Independent - Mon 22 Jul 19Telescope reveals new details of collision that formed the stars and matter that surround us
Astronomers discover Earth-like world with THREE red suns just 22.5 light-years from our home planet
Daily Mail - Thu 1 Aug 19The world was spotted by astronomers led from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics by looking for the periodic dimming of light from the main star as the planet passes in front of ...
Newly-Discovered, Nearby Alien World Has 3 Blazing-Red Suns
Livescience - Tue 30 Jul 19The next step, researchers said, is to figure out whether it has an atmosphere.
NASA finds new exoplanet that orbits three different suns
ZME Science - Mon 29 Jul 19The planet is so close to its host star that it only has a 5.36 day-long orbit. At this distance, surface temperatures should hover around 428 Kelvin (155 °C; 311 °F).
Our Milky Way Cannibalized a Neighbor to Become the Galaxy We See Today
SPACE.com - Mon 29 Jul 19The Milky Way was born in violence, and scientists are still piecing together a picture of the crime scene.
Distant alien planet with three red suns discovered
FOXNews - Mon 29 Jul 19Scientists have used NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to find an exoplanet with three red suns.
NASA: Southern California July earthquake moved the ground this much - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Thu 25 Jul 19The earth-rattling Ridgecrest quake rearranged the land by a matter of feet.
Milky Way ‘Devoured’ a Nearby Dwarf Galaxy 10 Billion Years Ago, Study Finds
Geek.com - Tue 23 Jul 19According to a new study, the Milky Way "gobbled up" a nearby dwarf galaxy 10 billion years ago. (Photo Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech) Not much is known ...
The Milky Way Was an Adorable Cannibal, Cosmic 'Baby Picture' Reveals
Livescience - Tue 23 Jul 19Researchers have developed a "baby picture" of the Milky Way galaxy, tracing its origins back to the time before it cannibalized another, smaller galaxy.
Astronomers believe the young Milky Way once swallowed a dwarf galaxy
Engadget - Tue 23 Jul 19Astronomers believe they've mapped an important sequence of events that shaped our galaxy 10 billion years ago. In a paper published in Nature Astronomy today, researchers from ...
Milky Way melded with smaller galaxy in long-ago cosmic crash
Reuters - Mon 22 Jul 19The Milky Way, home to our sun and billions of other stars, merged with another smaller galaxy in a colossal cosmic collision roughly 10 billion years ago, scientists said on Monday based on ...
The Milky Way devoured a smaller galaxy 10 billion years ago - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Mon 22 Jul 19Bringing new meaning to "you are what you eat."
Jill Tarter Swears She’d Tell Us If She’d Seen an Alien
Wired Science Blogs - Thu 25 Jul 19In a special extraterrestrial edition of WIRED’s Tech Support series, the legendary SETI astronomer takes questions from Twitter.
Milky Way’s violent birth decoded
The Hindu - Wed 24 Jul 19It was shaped as a result of collision with another smaller galaxy 10 bn years ago
Astronomers Map Vast Void in Our Cosmic Neighborhood
SpaceDaily - Wed 24 Jul 19Honolulu HI (SPX) Jul 23, 2019 An astronomer from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) and an international team published a new study that reveals more of the vast cosmic ...
The early days of the Milky Way revealed
SpaceDaily - Wed 24 Jul 19Santa Cruz, Spain (SPX) Jul 23, 2019 The universe 13,000 million years ago was very different from the universe we know today. It is understood that stars were forming at a very rapid rate, ...
The early days of the Milky Way revealed, ScienceDaily - Mon 22 Jul 19The early days of the Milky Way revealed, Eurekalert - Mon 22 Jul 19