Researchers from the University of Arizona (UA) have found evidence that could force scientists to redefine the habitable zone for TRAPPIST-1A exoplanets. TRAPPIST-1 system has always attracted the attention of humanity since its discovery in 2016. The existence of 7 Earth-sized planets around a cool star is the reason for its popularity. A number of…
Researchers propose that TRAPPIST-1e resembles Earth the most and it has an Oxygen-rich atmosphere to go with it. TRAPPIST-1 is a small, cool dwarf star located 39 light years or 235 trillion miles from our Sun. It is orbited by seven terrestrial (Earth-like) planets. These planets are temperate, which means the conditions there allow water…
Spitzer has been amazing us for 15 years now through its marvelous discoveries. Spitzer Space Telescope was launched on 25th August 2003 by NASA. The primary mission of this telescope was 2.5 years long and it was scheduled for that but it outlasted all the estimates of its lifetime and is still hovering in space.…
Chemical Composition of a host star reveals a lot about the orbiting planets and Ross 128 is no exception. Ross 128b is an Earth-sized exoplanet which was detected on 15th November 2017 by Xavier Bonfils. It created quite a lot of hype among the scientific community as it is the second closest known exoplanet to…
Exoplanets are heavenly bodies beyond our solar system where life could be possible. The search for signs of life in the outside world took humans beyond our solar system and a lot of planets, orbiting different stars, were found there. They are called Exoplanets as they are located outside our solar system. They come in…
On February 22, NASA has made a very important announcement in a press conference held in Washington: 3 planets with the size of the Earth have been discovered using Trappist telescope. The new discovered solar system named Trappist-1 (transiting planets and planetesimals small telescope), after the telescope that discovered these three planets, has a dwarf star located 40…