Space & PhysicsJuly 18, 2018
A Trillion Worlds
Big-data statistics have revealed, among other things, that our own solar system is kind of an oddball
Stories by Greg Laughlin
Greg Laughlin is a professor of astronomy at Yale University, where he works on the detection and characterization of extrasolar planets. He is co-author of The Five Ages of the Universe--Inside the Physics of Eternity, and he blogs about planets at oklo.org.
OpinionNovember 22, 2017
Flyby of Interstellar Asteroid Portends a Quadrillion Trillion More in Galaxy
Reports of the first-ever flyby of a body from another stellar system suggest a vast sea of interstellar shards and a Neptune-like planet around every star in the Milky Way