32 alien planets that really exist Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far. 10/1/2024 - 7:05 pm | View Link
Are there any planets in the universe that aren't round? But that doesn't necessarily mean planets are perfect spheres. "We call them round, but they're not really perfectly round, including our own Earth," Amirhossein Bagheri, a planetary science and ... 10/1/2024 - 8:53 am | View Link
The first alien planets were discovered in the 1990s. What have we learned? The first planetary system discovered was nothing like our own. It was more like a zombie solar system. Appropriately named Draugr, Poltergeist, and Phobetor, these worlds were discovered in 1992 and ... 09/30/2024 - 8:33 pm | View Link
This is the Moment a Star Expands to Eat One of its Orbiting Planets In a few billion years our Sun is going to go caput, but as that happens, it’s actually going to expand and engulf several planets. But while that’s a long way off, astronomers were able to finally ... 09/30/2024 - 9:20 am | View Link
What’s up in October: Planets keep dancing, providing a full fall spectacle As Mars gets a little closer and brighter each night and Venus gets higher and brighter, Saturn is still close to its best as an evening planet. 09/28/2024 - 9:07 pm | View Link
James Webb telescope sees potential signs of alien life in ... Earlier this week, Live Science reported that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could likely detect signs of extraterrestrial life on an Earth-like planet up to 50 light-years away. Now, a... 09/29/2024 - 2:01 am | View Website
Exoplanets An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, are untethered to any star. We’ve confirmed more than 5,600 exoplanets out of the billions that we believe exist. 09/28/2024 - 7:13 pm | View Website
NASA Drops Stunning New Image Of Alien Planet Just ... Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered one of the oldest and coldest-known exoplanets, a "super Jupiter" a mere 12 light-years away. 09/28/2024 - 12:10 pm | View Website
The Strangest Alien Worlds Are beyond Astronomers’ Wildest Dreams Alien worlds that glow like lightbulbs or harbor molten-rock rain are revealing planets’ profound cosmic diversity—and pointing the way toward finding those that truly resemble our own familiar... 09/27/2024 - 12:04 pm | View Website
9 alien planet discoveries that were out-of-this-world in 2022 From a scorching super-Earth to a football-shaped world, here are the greatest alien planet stories of 2022. 1. 5,000th confirmed exoplanet at last 09/26/2024 - 6:25 pm | View Website
Scientist develops revolutionary technology that turns air pollution into valuable resource: 'We can directly use those converted chemicals and fields for other applications'