We’re Using Giant Freakin’ Lasers To Probe Alien Planets

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

100 new alien worlds: Scientists find hidden haul in data from NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft

Astronomers have discovered an additional 100 new worlds in data collected by NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS, ...
AOL

Here's what we know about the real alien planet inspiring 'Pluribus'

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. - NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s Pluribus, a ...
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Aliens Might Be Chatting With the Planet Next Door. We Could Listen In.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focuses on finding technosignatures—potential signs of alien technology. If we look carefully, we ...
Arizona Daily Star

U of A is mission control for new space probe launched to study distant stars, planets

A small space telescope with the eyes of a giant will spend the next year studying the planets around distant stars, and the University of Arizona will serve as mission control. The refrigerator-sized ...
Forbes

NASA Finds 6,000th Alien Planet, 30 Years After Its First

Kepler-62f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.04) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets ...