Exoplanet Found by Hubble Resembles Reputed “Planet Nine” in Our Solar System
Astronomers confirm bound orbit for planet far from its star, showing that far-flung planets exist. Astronomers are still searching for a hypothetical “Planet Nine” in…
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Alien Life on Exoplanets: The Upside of Volatile Space Weather
Robust stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets, could facilitate its detection. Although violent and unpredictable, stellar flares emitted by a planet’s host star…
Astronomers Detect Possible Radio Emission From Exoplanet for the First Time
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Boötes – that…
Hubble Discovers a Strange Exoplanet That Resembles the Long-Sought “Planet Nine”
The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD106906 b occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away and it may be offering clues to something…
New Clue to “Planet Nine” – Hubble Pins Down Weird Exoplanet With Far-Flung Orbit
Finding suggests that the long-sought Planet Nine—if it does exist—could have formed very early. Though every planet in our solar system has been visited by…
Studying the Sun From Far Away Like a Star to Understand Stellar Flares and Exoplanets
New research shows that sunspots and other active regions can change the overall solar emissions. The sunspots cause some emissions to dim and others to…
Ariel Exoplanet Mission Moves From Blueprint to Reality
ESA’s exoplanet mission Ariel, scheduled for launch in 2029, has moved from study to implementation phase, following which an industrial contractor will be selected to…
NASA Planet-Hunter Data Reveals That 50% of Sun-Like Stars Could Host Potentially Habitable Planets
Since astronomers confirmed the presence of planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, humanity has wondered how many could harbor life. Now, we’re one step closer…
AI and Photonics Decipher the “Twinkle” of Stars to Make It Easier to Find “New Earths”
Australian Scientists’ Invention Will Decipher the ‘Twinkle’ of Stars Australian scientists have developed a new type of sensor to measure and correct the distortion of…
Fiery Hot Lava Planet Weather Forecast: Supersonic Winds and Rocky Rains
‘Rocky’ weather could change the surface and atmosphere over time on exoplanet K2-141b. Among the most extreme planets discovered beyond the edges of our solar…
Astronomers Discover Activity on Distant Centaur Planetary Object
Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar system. They sometimes have comet-like features such as tails…
First Ultra Hot Neptune – LTT 9779b – Is One of Nature’s Improbable Planets
International team including University of Warwick astronomers discovers a new class of planet, the Ultra Hot Neptune The planet was found in the Neptunian Desert,…
Rogue Planet About the Size of Earth Discovered in the Milky Way
Our Galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets, gravitationally unbound to any star. An international team of scientists, led by Polish astronomers, has announced the…
Highly Unusual “Hot Neptune” Exoplanet 260 Light Years Away That “Shouldn’t Exist”
A team led by an astronomer from the University of Kansas has crunched data from NASA’s TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to portray for the…
VLT GRAVITY: First Direct Observation of Exoplanet β Pictoris C
Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the first direct confirmation of an exoplanet discovered by radial-velocity. As…
Two Planets Around a Red Dwarf: A “Sub-Neptune” and a “Super-Earth”
The “SAINT-EX” Observatory, led by scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR PlanetS of the University of Bern and the University of…
Vaporized Metal in the Air of an Ultra-Hot Exoplanet
An international team of researchers led by the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS of the University of Bern and the University of Geneva…
Hunt the Skies for New Worlds Beyond Our Solar System From Home With NASA’s Planet Patrol
Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the…