This week, NASA will launch its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the mission of which, aided by a group of Boston University professors and students, is to locate Earth-like exoplanets.
“Are we alone?” The resonating question that most space exploration is based on was brought closer to an answer with the recent discovery of four more planets in TRAPPIST-1, a system of now seven...
Many people all over the world were shocked and dismayed when the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to “dwarf planet” status at its 2006 convention. Now, researchers at the California...
