Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...
A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and death of nearby stars are an important piece of the puzzle. In a paper ...
Astronomers could multiply the known catalog of planets outside our solar system by a factor of roughly 16 in a single mission. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a flagship observatory ...