Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger
We sit down with Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger, the 236th AAS Meeting’s Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer to discuss her quest to find life on other planets using the information we know about our own.
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.
Heavy Metal Horizons: An Ultra-Hot Jupiter That Rains Liquid Iron
An international team of astronomers discover an ultra-hot Jupiter where liquid iron literally rains from the skies.
The Habitability of Our Closest Neighbor
Is Proxima Centauri b habitable?
Why are there so many sub-Neptune exoplanets?
Sub-Neptunes are the most common planet in the galaxy, but Neptunes are much rarer. Why?? Read on to find out!
Big and Fuzzy or Small and Rocky? A Close-In Sub-Neptune with Near-Solar Metallicity
Observations from Hubble and Spitzer bring us one step closer to understanding the atmospheric compositions of intermediate-mass exoplanets.