Giving thanks to Carl Sagan for 90 years of science inspiration
Read about Carl Sagan and his legacy during your turkey break!
20,000 stars later they didn’t find a single planet (and that’s cool too!)
Hot stars seem to host fewer small planets than their cold star cousins.
Life is Like a Box of Potential Biosignatures
The authors of today’s paper put forth theoretical models of how habitable exoplanets might appear to the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) using the molecules present in the Earth’s atmosphere from earlier eons, and test if HWO will be able to detect these molecules in simulated observations.
The Solar System in the Mirror
We have not found a Solar System analog, but upcoming missions stand to discover more and more multi-planet systems. We can begin to understand these systems by asking: what would our own Solar System look like to distant observers?
Identifying the sculptor: what dynamical processes lead to observed planet multiplicity
The Kepler dataset appears to be split between single planet systems and multi-planet systems. Could this be because systems become dynamically hot over time?
A Candidate Planet in the White Dwarf “Forbidden” Zone
It’s uncertain if exoplanets survive the deaths of their host stars, but now astronomers have found exactly that: a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a White Dwarf!