TrES-2b – an Extrasolar Planet
TrES-2b is an extrasolar planet that orbits the star GSC 03549-02811 750 light-years from Earth. It travels only 3 million miles around its star. The…
Astronomy
Kepler-438b – a Near-Earth-sized Exoplanet
Kepler-438b has been confirmed as a near-Earth exoplanet. It is the first near-Earth-size world discovered in a star’s habitable zone similar to our sun. It’s…
Kepler-440b – a Super-Earth Exoplanet
Kepler-440 b is an exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. It is a confirmed super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within Kepler-440’s habitable zone, approximately 850 light-years (261…
Kepler-452b – a Super-Earth Exoplanet
Kepler-452b is the first roughly Earth-sized planet discovered in a Sun-like star’s habitable zone—the orbital region where an Earth-like planet could have liquid water on…
Tabletop Sensors are being Repurposed to Search for Dark Matter
Researchers in the dark matter community are beginning to question whether they are looking for the right kind of dark matter. They have proposed a…
East Asian Spiders Successfully Vacationing In US Cover Georgia in Giant Webs
Although eight legs aren’t very handy for a nomadic arachnid that want to move abroad, a troop of spiders has successfully journeyed from East Asia…
Kepler-442 – a K-type Main-sequence Star
Kepler-442 is a K-type main-sequence star in the constellation Lyra, located approximately 1,206 light-years from Earth. It is not part of the Lyra constellation outline,…
Data from Hubble Confirms the Absence of Dark Matter in Galaxies
The most precise distance measurement to date of the ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) NGC1052-DF2 (DF2) confirms that it is devoid of dark matter. An international team…
Watch Rocket Lab launch satellites for BlackSky and attempt to recover Electron booster live
Rocket Lab hopes to take another step forward in its reusability program tonight as it tries for the third time to recover the booster from…
Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy is being used to look for Dark Energy
Researchers present a robust experimental technique for investigating a specific dark energy theory. Their approach, dubbed ‘Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy,’ could bring researchers one step closer…
In Supermassive and Stellar Mass Black Holes, Similar States of Activity Have Been Found
Juan A. Fernández-Ontiveros of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Rome and Teo Muñoz-Darias of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) in Canarias…
Kepler-442b – a Near-Earth-sized Exoplanet
Kepler-442b is a super-Earth exoplanet in the habitable zone of a K-type star. It is a confirmed near-Earth-sized exoplanet, most likely rocky, orbiting within the…
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