Liminal FictionWRITER FUEL: The solar system has eight planets and hundreds of moons. Could extraterrestrial life live on any of them?
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Why are Tatooine planets rare? General relativity explains why binary star systems rarely host planets https://phys.org/news/2026-01-tatooine-planets-rare-general-binary.html 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science
Resurrecting Ancient Enzymes in NASA's Search for Life Beyond Earth https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/planetary-science/astrobiology/resurrecting-ancient-enzymes-in-nasas-search-for-life-beyond-earth/ 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science
A possible ice-cold Earth discovered in the archives of the retired Kepler Space Telescope https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ice-cold-earth-archives-kepler.html 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science
A possible ice-cold Earth discovered in the archives of the retired Kepler Space Telescope
Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up surprises. A new paper reveals the latest: a possible rocky planet slightly larger than Earth, orbiting a sun-like star about 146 light-years away. The candidate planet, HD 137010 b, might be remarkably similar to Earth, but it has one potentially big difference: It could be colder than perpetually frozen Mars.
New radio method uncovers hidden bursts from dwarf stars and hints of exoplanets https://phys.org/news/2026-01-radio-method-uncovers-hidden-dwarf.html 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science
New radio method uncovers hidden bursts from dwarf stars and hints of exoplanets
An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering previously undetectable stellar and exoplanetary signals hidden within archival radio-astronomical data. Thanks to this innovation, scientists have discovered new radio bursts originating from dwarf stars and possibly from exoplanets. The analysis method, Multiplexed Interferometric Radio Spectroscopy (RIMS), found that some of the signals detected are consistent with star-planet interactions.
Astrophysicists discover largest sulfur-containing molecular compound in space https://phys.org/news/2026-01-astrophysicists-largest-sulfur-molecular-compound.html 🦠 #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science
Astrophysicists discover largest sulfur-containing molecular compound in space
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), in collaboration with astrophysicists from the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, have identified the largest sulfur-bearing molecule ever found in space: 2,5-cyclohexadiene-1-thione (C₆H₆S). They made this breakthrough by combining laboratory experiments with astronomical observations. The molecule resides in the molecular cloud G+0.693–0.027, about 27,000 light-years from Earth near the center of the Milky Way.
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Sinking ice on Jupiter's moon Europa may be slowly feeding its ocean the ingredients for life https://www.space.com/astronomy/jupiter/sinking-ice-on-jupiters-moon-europa-may-be-slowly-feeding-its-ocean-the-ingredients-for-life 🪐 #SolarSystem #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science
Rethinking where life could exist beyond Earth https://phys.org/news/2026-01-rethinking-life-earth.html 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science
Rethinking where life could exist beyond Earth
Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet should be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water. A new study argues that this ring is too strict: on tidally locked worlds that keep one face in daylight and the other in permanent night, heat may still circulate enough for liquid water to persist on the dark side, even when the planet orbits closer to cool M- and K-dwarf stars than conservative climate models allow.
NASA AI Model That Found 370 Exoplanets Now Digs Into TESS Data https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/deep-learning-exoplanets-tess/ 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science
