Could a Planet Be Better for Life Than Earth? What “Superhabitable” Really Means
A fact-checked explainer on superhabitable worlds, K-dwarf stars and what plant-light experiments actually show.
Phoenix planet evidence challenges what happens to planetary systems after a star dies
A paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy describes a candidate planet orbiting a white dwarf star roughly 790 light-years from Earth. Exoplanets orbiting stellar remnants have been detected before, so that alone is not what makes this finding notable.
First Direct Radio Signal From an Exoplanet Ever Detected: What MeerKAT Found at β Pictoris b, 63 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have detected the first direct radio emission from a planet outside our solar system, using the MeerKAT radio telescope array in South Africa.
Beta Pictoris b Radio Signal Exoplanet Magnetic Field MeerKAT
If a headline about "radio signals from an alien planet" caught your eye, here's the actual science behind it: astronomers have picked up real
Nader Haghighipour’s Models Show Earth-Like Planets Form Naturally: 1,000 Simulations Overturn 30 Years of Theory
For decades, planetary scientists faced a puzzle: Was Earth’s formation a cosmic accident requiring a precise chain of unlikely events, or a natural outcome of physics? A research team led by Dr.
Rahul Somvanshi
Webb Telescope Makes History by Directly Imaging Its First Alien Planet
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has reached another milestone by directly capturing an image of its first newly discovered planet outside our solar system. The planet, named TWA 7b, is also
Karmactive Team
WASP-193b: A Giant Planet as Light as Cotton Candy
Scientists have found a planet that breaks all the rules they know about how planets should work. This new planet, WASP-193b, is bigger than Jupiter but as light as cotton candy. The
James Webb Telescope Finds Water-Rich Exoplanet Amid Budget Cuts
The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful eye we’ve ever had in space, is showing us things we’ve never seen before. But like many big projects, it’s dealing with money problems