Smoons, Ploonets, and Circumbinary Planets, Oh My!
Every exomoon deserves the chance to fly!
Finding our Long-Lost Twins: Can JWST Distinguish Between other Earths… and other Venuses?
Venus may be quite similar in size and mass as Earth, but its surface conditions could not be any more different! Can a modern space telescope like JWST identify the difference between an exoEarth and an exoVenus?
A Fluffy Planet with a touch of Sandy Clouds
For today’s exoplanet weather forecast: scorching hot and sandy, bring your extra sturdy umbrellas and fire suits!
UR: Rethinking our transiting exoplanet detection approaches: A method for optimizing small transiting planet detection.
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover how Yash Gondhalekar optimized periodogram searches to more effectively find small transiting planets!
Biases from Bulging Planets
We usually assume that all exoplanets are perfectly round. Today’s authors wonder: what are we getting wrong if some are slightly squished?
The More You Know? Conflicting Observations of a Brown Dwarf
Today’s bite takes a look at the brown dwarf KELT-1b and the curious results of recent observations of its atmosphere