Parenting planets is a game-changer
How important is understanding the impact of stellar environment on stellar birth?
UR #25: Improved Methods for Ground-Based Follow-Up of Young Stars and Planets from the ZEIT Survey
Today’s undergraduate research post features a student who carried out ground-based follow-up observations of exoplanet hosting stars found by space telescopes!
Potential Habitability of Extremely Tilted Planets
What happens when you take an Earth-like planet and tilt it nearly on its side? For life, its not as crazy as it sounds.
The Little Planets That Could
What can we say about planet formation around the smallest stars in the universe?
Green plants on red planets: would photosynthesis work?
Sunlight fuels photosynthesis here on Earth, which in turn sustains all life on our planet. But how would this crucial process work on planets which orbit fainter stars?