Longest-period young transiting exoplanets discovered
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It’s 2234, you’re on your annual class field trip touring exoplanets, and your teacher informs everyone they can pick one more exoplanetary system to explore before heading back to Earth. You and your classmates are exhausted from the day’s activitie...
- By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
- On: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:34 +0000
Roman Telescope's massive infrared mirror is ready to fly
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It’s June 2027, and you’re fresh off defending your PhD studying the direct imaging of exoplanets while starting your postdoctoral journey at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The trauma of eating ramen and living off a sub-living wage for the last five ...
- By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
- On: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:05 +0000
JWST Finds Methane Atmosphere on Temperate Exoplanet
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It’s 2165, and methane is in high demand, especially after the Titan Treaty of 2145 made it illegal to harvest methane from Saturn’s moon, Titan. But the advent of interstellar travel has made exoplanetary exploration far easier, enabling corporations ...
- By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
- On: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:08 +0000
Blue Origin's Lunar Lander Just Passed Its Toughest Test Yet
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Before any spacecraft can survive the Moon, it has to survive something almost as brutal, a giant metal chamber in Houston that strips away every molecule of air and swings temperatures from scorching to freezing in minutes. Blue Origin's lunar lander just...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sun, 31 May 2026 22:43 +0000
The Loudest Planet Wins
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We are closer than ever to detecting signs of life on another world. The James Webb Space Telescope is already ‘sniffing’ alien atmospheres, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory is being built specifically to find biology beyond Earth. But a new paper ...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sun, 31 May 2026 22:17 +0000
A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part VIII: Paradox? What Paradox?
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In recent decades, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has seen a revival, and future surveys will benefit from new technologies. Similarly, our perception of what technologies an advanced civilization might use has expanded....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Sun, 31 May 2026 21:48 +0000