Peas in a Pod?
Neighboring exoplanets appear to come in similar sizes. But is this a result of observational bias?
The future is bright: a new technique finds variability in K2 data of the Seven Sisters
Today’s authors use a new technique to make new discoveries about the Seven Sisters.
Reading the Epic of Reionization
Observations of dim galaxies lensed by foreground clusters provides a way of measuring the progression of reionization.
It’s a bird, it’s a planet, it’s a … speckle?
Well, let’s have a drink and see if that helps us figure things out.
Predicting the number of planets from TESS
NASA’s TESS spacecraft has launched! Today’s paper predicts how many exoplanets it will find.
Statistically Confirming an Earth-Like Planet? Not So Fast!
Statistical confirmation of long-period, low SNR candidates should be taken with a grain of salt. The reliability is too low to confirm individual systems without followup observations and the 99% confidence validation of Kepler-452b is likely closer to 90%.