Astronomers find first evidence for an Exomoon
Astronomers find first compelling evidence for a Moon, an exomoon, outside our solar system.
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Exomoons Could Be Excellent Incubators
Artist’s impression of the view from a hypothetical moon around a exoplanet orbiting a triple star system. Credit: NASA
Exomoon detection may prove crucial for Extraterrestrial life
In recent years, extrasolar moons, or exomoons, have become exciting to astronomers because of the myriad of properties they could exhibit that we don’t see
Neptune-Sized Moon in a Distant Solar System discovered
An ‘exomoon’ that is almost three times the size of Earth orbiting a Jupiter-sized planet, discovered outside our Solar System.
Liquid Water on Moons of free-floating Exoplanets
The moons of rogue exoplanets that don’t have stars could have water and be a good place to find life.
Super Saturn has an enormous Ring System
Gigantic exoplanet ring system around J1407b much larger, heavier than Saturn’s, the first of its kind to be found outside our solar system.
Potentially Habitable Moons
According to astrobiologists, these may be the four most tantalizing potentially habitable moons in our Solar System. Europa, Ganymede, Titan and Enceladus shown at the same scale.
First Alien Planet In Habitable zone
This artist’s conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It is the first planet that
Alien Civilizations will be discovered within 20 Years
Russian scientists expect humanity to encounter alien civilizations within the next two decades. “The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms
