The moon hanging in the night sky sent Robert Hurt’s mind into deep space — to a region some 40 light years away, in fact, where seven Earth-sized planets crowded close to a dim, red sun. […]
Geoff Marcy remembers the hair standing up on the back of his neck and Paul Butler remembers being dead tired. The two men had just made history: the first confirmation of a planet orbiting another star. […]
There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life. That planet is Earth, as you may have guessed, and it has all the right conditions for critters to thrive on its surface. […]
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planets yet found orbiting a star similar to our sun. […]
