An astronomer at Columbia University, Kipping is perhaps most known for a project sifting through data from the Kepler space telescope on more than a thousand planets orbiting distant stars. But he’s ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A scientist from Columbia University has put forward a proposal to turn ...

Despite no clear-cut evidence, mankind has wondered for eons whether we’re alone in the universe. One astronomer, however, is almost sure that extraterrestrial life exists. In a new study, Columbia ...

Despite no clear-cut evidence, mankind has wondered for eons whether we're alone in the universe. One astronomer, however, is almost sure that extraterrestrial life exists. In a new study, Columbia ...

Kipping recently joined the Astronomy faculty at Columbia after working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Dr. Kipping has no reviews on CULPA as of yet, but they'll probably be ...

David Kipping—astronomy professor at Columbia University and among the world’s foremost exomoon hunters—is mum for the moment. “As much as I would love to tell you everything about it, I can’t go into ...

A pair of Columbia University astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Kepler Space Telescope have assembled compelling evidence for the existence of a moon orbiting a gas-giant planet ...

Astronomers haven’t found a single one—yet. But those elusive exomoons—satellites orbiting planets outside our solar system—may be everywhere in the Milky Way. “It would be amazing to have examples in ...

As I write these words, there are a total of 1,327 confirmed exoplanets that we have detected because they periodically block the light from their host star. Of those 1,327 exoplanets, only 38 orbit ...