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Life Is Possible On Trappist-1 Exoplanets

In Exoplanets by Brian Koberlein29 January 20187 Comments

Earth-sized worlds around a small star might be habitable after all.

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Planetary Disks Don’t Need Planets To Make Waves

In Exoplanets by Brian Koberlein24 January 20181 Comment

We’ve thought that young planets form gaps in the planetary disks of young stars. Now we find that these gaps can form without the presence of planets.

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Supersize It

In Exoplanets by Brian Koberlein12 July 20172 Comments

Jupiter-type planets come in two sizes, and these two types of planets formed in very different ways.

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A Young Star System Holds Clues About The History Of Our Own

In Exoplanets by Brian Koberlein9 May 20172 Comments

Just 10 light years away, Epsilon Eridani is a young star system that tells us how our own solar system may have formed.

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Living On Tatooine

In Exoplanets by Brian Koberlein15 April 20170 Comments

Habitable Tatooine-like worlds with two suns are theoretically possible.

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One Step Closer To The Holy Grail

In Exoplanets by Brian Koberlein13 April 20170 Comments

Astronomers have found a rich atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet, and that means potentially habitable worlds could exist around red dwarf stars.

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One Ring To Bind Them

In Exoplanets by Brian Koberlein5 March 20170 Comments

The binary star system SDSS 1557 has a rocky asteroid belt, which could hold clues to the formation of Earth-like planets.

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Dust Bunnies

In Exoplanets by Brian Koberlein1 March 20172 Comments

Early planets can form from clumps of dust.

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How To Find A Star System

In Exoplanets by Brian Koberlein28 February 20171 Comment

Astronomers have found seven Earth-sized planets around a dwarf star. Here’s how they did it.

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Brian Koberlein is an astrophysics professor who can't stop rambling about how awesome the Universe is.