While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is located within a star's habitable zone, it means that there is a chance that ...

Abstract: Direct imaging of exoplanets is crucial for advancing our understanding of planetary systems beyond our solar system, but it faces significant challenges due to the high contrast between ...

Astronomers have identified a colossal exomoon candidate roughly seven Neptune masses orbiting the giant world HD 206893 B — ...

A "super-puff" exoplanet is leaking a lot of helium into space, new observations show — and may be in the process of losing a lot of its atmosphere. A large plume of helium gas was spotted evaporating ...

Searching for exomoons—moons that orbit around another planet—was one of the most exciting capabilities expected of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) when it launched in late 2021. So, after four ...

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Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets and their parent stars. The red giant star Kepler-56 has a really weird spin, ...

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light years away. The newfound exoplanet, which received designation TOI-1422 c, is ...

The giants might've been kicked out, left to live a rogue lifestyle. A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.

An artist’s impression of the TOI-3884 system: the super-Neptune TOI-3884b passing in front of the red dwarf star TOI-3884, which hosts a large starspot. (using generative AI and image editing tools).