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04/02/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Scientist suggests scanning newly discovered planets for space junk as an indicator of alien life

We’ve littered Earth’s orbit with “space junk” since the dawn of spaceflight, so it stands to reason that advanced alien life might have done the same. A Spanish researcher suggests looking for evidence of orbital trash as proof of extraterrestrial life, reported a New Scientist article. According to astrophysicist Hector Socas-Navarro, the “transit method” technique commonly used […]

03/23/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

NASA has identified an exoplanet with large amounts of water

Scientists have found water in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet known as WASP-39b. Although its initial discovery was way back in 2011, little research has been directed towards the Saturn-sized extrasolar planet up until recently. The team who took the first in-depth look at WASP-39b collected data from various telescopes. Namely, the Hubble Space […]

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