Dr. Jessie Christiansen Wants to Help You Discover the Next Exoplanet
As project scientist on NASA’s Exoplanet Archive, Dr. Christiansen is a huge advocate for citizen science—and making sure anyone can be a planet hunter. ..
As project scientist on NASA’s Exoplanet Archive, Dr. Christiansen is a huge advocate for citizen science—and making sure anyone can be a planet hunter. ..
Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green. ..
In Life on Other Planets, Aomawa Shields talks about her hunt for habitable exoplanets as a classically trained actress and one of the few Black women ..
Phil Plait’s new book, Under Alien Skies, helps space fans imagine what it would be like to visit stars and other worlds. ..
Need to estimate, from trillions of miles away, how likely another world is to host life? There’s a flowchart for that. ..
The grainy image of a “super Jupiter” is a sign of what’s to come as the telescope’s observations ramp up. ..
The cosmic probe’s long-awaited images will kick off astronomers’ science programs. ..
Observations of faraway worlds have forced a near-total rewrite of the story of our solar system. ..
After successfully launching and maneuvering the spacecraft, JWST researchers still have months of prep work to do before they can start taking pictures. ..
To support life, a planet has to stay in its star’s “habitable zone.” But research on a nearby star shows that life-friendly zones won’t stay that ..