Tag: exoplanets

Keeping the energy in the room: Professor Ben Mazin talks superconductors, exoplanets and dance clubs as he explains advances in sensor technology

It may seem like technology advances year after year, as if by magic. But behind every incremental improvement and breakthrough revolution is a team...

The Search for ET Has an X-Factor: the Evolution of Stars

Stephen Kane was searching for stars that could host planets with warm, temperate climates hospitable to life—you know, like Earth—when he glimpsed a young...

This Is How Aliens Might Search for Human Life

In the search for extraterrestrial life, we’re usually the ones doing the snooping. But Lisa Kaltenegger, an astronomer at Cornell University, wanted to...

Can Alien Smog Lead Us to Extraterrestrial Civilizations?

Last March, when Ravi Kopparapu was still working from his desk at the Goddard Space Center in Maryland, he came across a press release...

High schoolers discover four exoplanets through mentorship program

They may be the youngest astronomers to make a discovery yet. This week, 16-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright have co-authored a peer-reviewed paper...

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