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During a press conference held on January 6, 2020 at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Honolulu, Emily Gilbert (then a graduate […]
Growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s, I was an avid viewer of science fiction on television. Naturally, the programs I watched included the classic […]
Even though NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was officially retired on October 30, 2018 after it finally exhausted its propellant used for attitude control, teams of scientists around […]
Launched on April 18, 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been systematically surveying about 200,000 of the brightest stars over most of the sky […]
For Star Trek fans like myself, the mention of the nearby star, Wolf 359, instantly brings to mind the “Battle of Wolf 359”. Originally seen in […]
The year 2019 is proving to be a fruitful one for the discovery of exoplanets orbiting nearby stars especially our smallest neighbors, red dwarfs. On August […]
As engineers and space travel enthusiasts continue to make progress tackling the problems associated with interstellar travel, astronomers around the globe have been busy searching for […]
Despite its diminutive size and comparative dimness, Barnard’s Star has played an outsized role in astronomy since its discovery a century ago. Being the second closest […]
Science fiction stories in movies and television set on other worlds frequently present views of spectacular arrangements of moons, looming giant planets and multiple suns of […]
Without a doubt, NASA’s Kepler mission has been the most prolific discoverer of extrasolar planets to date. It has done this by looking for periodic dips […]
The year 2017 is certainly proving to be a fertile one for the discovery of potentially habitable exoplanets. Just a year ago there were maybe five […]
It is difficult to believe that it has already been a year but on August 24, 2016, an international team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé […]
