Closely Orbiting Stars May Make Planets Appear Smaller
New research reveals that two closely orbiting stars may appear in images as a single point of light, making planets appear less dense than previously…
New research reveals that two closely orbiting stars may appear in images as a single point of light, making planets appear less dense than previously…
A team of researchers from Yale University has identified 60 potential new “Hot Jupiters” — highly irradiated worlds that glow like coals on a barbecue…
How artists use scientific data to visualize distant exoplanets and other astrophysical phenomena that you can’t see. The moon hanging in the night sky sent…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers compare two seemingly similar “hot Jupiter” exoplanets, finding that WASP-67 b and HAT-P-38 b have very different atmospheres. Is…
An international team of astronomers has discovered a planet like Jupiter zipping around its host star every day, boiling at temperatures hotter than most stars…
Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has identified a regular pattern in the orbits of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. This…
Using observations from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, a team of astronomers reveals that the distant planet HAT-P-26b has a primitive atmosphere composed almost…
In a newly published study, astronomers describe the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system as being in something called a “resonant chain,” which strongly stabilizes the…
Using ESO/MPG telescope in Chile, a team of astronomers has detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet for the first time. The planet, super-Earth planet…
Using data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), astronomers confirm that the nearby Epsilon Eridani system has an architecture remarkably similar to that…
University of Chicago postdoctoral scholar Sebastiaan Krijt asks the question: If a life form existed on one of the TRAPPIST-1 planets, could space debris carry…
By combining Spitzer and ground-based KMTNet microlensing observations, a team of astronomers has discovered a new planet with the mass of Earth. The planet, called…
Astronomers are moving to the next phase of studying alien worlds – searching for signs of life on planets outside our Solar System. And the…
NASA’s Cassini Mission and Hubble Space Telescope are providing new details about ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, increasing the scientific interest of these and…
NASA is set to release new details on ocean worlds discovered by Hubble and the Cassini Spacecraft. On Thursday, April 13 at 2 p.m. EDT…
Using Kepler data, Yale astronomers have discovered a Neptune-sized exoplanet – Kepler-150 f. Yale astronomers have discovered a “lost” planet that is nearly the size…
New research suggests that HD 106906b formed outside the debris disk, where it’s visible today, as opposed to having been formed inside the debris disk…
Astronomers plan to use the James Webb Space Telescope to detect atmospheric features of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. With the discovery of seven…