SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged Exoplanets Earth's ancient past might be the road map to discovering extraterrestrial life Our own past was pretty alien. By Cassidy Ward | 1 week ago The JWST bagged its first exoplanet, a sweltering Earth-sized world There are more worlds than these. By Cassidy Ward | 2 weeks ago The crew of 'The Ark' could have two new nearby Earth-like worlds to explore Just a short jaunt across an interstellar pond. By Cassidy Ward | 1 month ago Astronomers identify twin water worlds 218 light years from Earth "I've sailed farther than most men have dreamed," Kevin Costner as The Mariner in Waterworld. By Cassidy Ward | 1 month ago Astronomers are watching an exoplanet slowly fall into its star This time, when the world ends, it's for real. By Cassidy Ward | 1 month ago The rich get richer: High-mass stars steal planets from smaller stars Simulations show some stars possess purloined planets. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Astronomers find a torched super-Earth on a ONE DAY orbit around its star We’ve found the last planet in the galaxy you'd want to live on. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago A telescope the size of the Earth sees the wobble of a bizarre planet in a binary star GJ 896Ab is a planet of many odd characteristics. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Two super-Earths found around a tiny red dwarf star — with one in the habitable zone Small star, big planets, great opportunity. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago A still-forming exoplanet predicted to exist is found in exactly the right spot AS 209's Jupiter-sized planet seen stirring things up around the young star By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Load More
Earth's ancient past might be the road map to discovering extraterrestrial life Our own past was pretty alien. By Cassidy Ward | 1 week ago
The JWST bagged its first exoplanet, a sweltering Earth-sized world There are more worlds than these. By Cassidy Ward | 2 weeks ago
The crew of 'The Ark' could have two new nearby Earth-like worlds to explore Just a short jaunt across an interstellar pond. By Cassidy Ward | 1 month ago
Astronomers identify twin water worlds 218 light years from Earth "I've sailed farther than most men have dreamed," Kevin Costner as The Mariner in Waterworld. By Cassidy Ward | 1 month ago
Astronomers are watching an exoplanet slowly fall into its star This time, when the world ends, it's for real. By Cassidy Ward | 1 month ago
The rich get richer: High-mass stars steal planets from smaller stars Simulations show some stars possess purloined planets. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
Astronomers find a torched super-Earth on a ONE DAY orbit around its star We’ve found the last planet in the galaxy you'd want to live on. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
A telescope the size of the Earth sees the wobble of a bizarre planet in a binary star GJ 896Ab is a planet of many odd characteristics. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
Two super-Earths found around a tiny red dwarf star — with one in the habitable zone Small star, big planets, great opportunity. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
A still-forming exoplanet predicted to exist is found in exactly the right spot AS 209's Jupiter-sized planet seen stirring things up around the young star By Phil Plait | 4 months ago