Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...
NASA ’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the strongest evidence yet that a small, rocky planet outside our solar system ...
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.
To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...
Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a ...
The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...
Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen ...
An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...
Webb telescope observations hint that a scorching rocky exoplanet may hold a thick atmosphere above molten rock, defying ...
The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered ...