How many exoplanets orbit two stars? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to ...
Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.
Interstellar Arc is an immersive sci-fi experience that uses recent advances in headset tech to break new ground in virtual reality. And it all happens inside an empty-looking room in Las Vegas.
An “extra exceptional” Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the “huge” new world ...
The planet formed 50 million years after the dinosaurs died, making it incredibly young in cosmic terms.
James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal atmospheric gases above the molten rocky exoplanet TOI-561 b, providing the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere on a tidally-locked ultra-hot ...
Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.
"We are only beginning to discover the true complexity of these worlds." ...
After cataloging thousands of worlds beyond our solar system, astronomers are now closing in on a far rarer prize: a moon ...
After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...