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Billions of Exoplanets Are Looking More Habitable

Posted in Featured, Science on 17th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

A new astrophysics study just raised the chances for finding life on exoplanets across the universe.

Kepler exoplanet tally passes 1,000

Posted in Science on 11th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

NASA's Kepler space telescope's count of exoplanets has passed the magic 1,000 mark, including eight new "habitable" planets and 544 candidate planets.

'Alien Earth' is among eight new far-off planets

Posted in Science on 7th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller

One of eight new planets spied in distant solar systems has usurped the title of 'most Earth-like alien world', astronomers have said.

Some exoplanets may get squished by gravity from stars

Posted in Science on 16th Dec, 2014
by Alex Muller

Astronomers have caught glimpses of planets that may be less dense than Styrofoam, some with two suns, and others believed to be made of diamond.

Your Run-of-the-Mill Digital Camera Can Now Detect Alien Planets

Posted in Hardware on 8th Dec, 2014
by Alex Muller

Modern tech, it would seem, is taking homebrew astronomy to new heights.