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Why Intelligent Life May Be Impossible Around Most Stars
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New research from the Cool Worlds Lab leads …
2 days, 15 hours ago
Could We Detect the Death Star?
To celebrate the release of Star Wars Rogue One this weekend, let's ask the question - could we detect the Death Star with our current telescopes? Re…
2 days, 16 hours ago
The First Exoplanet Claim: Captain William S Jacob
In 1855, Captain William Stephen Jacob authored a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society claiming that a planet likely existe…
2 days, 17 hours ago
Is Time an Illusion? | Prof Sean Carroll
We caught up with Prof Sean Carroll at a recent astronomy conference and got his thoughts about time. Time may seem like a fundamental property of th…
2 days, 18 hours ago
Disk Detectives
Would you like to help astronomers hunt for planets? Dr Marc Kuchner of NASA, principal investigator of the DiskDetective.org project, visited the Co…
2 days, 19 hours ago
Why We Might Live in a "Barely Habitable" Universe
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Intelligent design purports that the Univers…
2 days, 20 hours ago
Classifying Worlds
Is there a way to naturally classify the different types of planets in the Universe? Two of the most fundamental properties of any object are its mas…
2 days, 21 hours ago
JWST Surveyed a Jupiter-like Exoplanet for Exomoons: Results
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The day has finally come! Today we share our…
2 days, 22 hours ago
A Cloaking Device for Planets QandA
We've been overwhelmed by the huge numbers of views, likes and questions on our "Cloaking Device" video! Alex responds to a few of your questions, pl…
3 days ago
How Many Planets in the Universe? | Part 1: Our Galaxy
Have you ever wondered just how many planets there are in the Universe? So have we! We haven't surveyed the entire Universe (!) but based of the occu…
3 days, 1 hour ago