An international team of astronomers has announced the second-ever discovery of a multiplanetary circumbinary system. Astronomers at the University of Birmingham have discovered a second…
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have created the first detailed temperature map of exoplanet WASP-18 b, and identified water vapor in its extremely…
Astrophysicists and citizen scientists have discovered three exoplanets, considered to be among the last observed by NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope. Throughout its mission, Kepler…
University of Florida astronomers find that hundreds of millions of planets orbiting dwarf stars in the Milky Way could potentially harbor life, occupying a ‘Goldilocks’…
The planet, named LP 791-18 d, was located and observed using data from NASA’s Tess satellite and the Spitzer Space Telescope. A team of scientists…
Once a star evolves beyond the main sequence – the longest stage of stellar evolution, during which the radiation generated by nuclear fusion in a…
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet, LP 791-18 d, believed to be highly volcanic. The planet’s volcanic activity could sustain an atmosphere potentially allowing for…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a steamy, highly reflective mini-Neptune exoplanet, GJ 1214 b, using its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to reveal details about…
The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have also developed a…
Earth will meet a similar fate in 5 billion years. As a star runs out of fuel, it will billow out to a million times…
Gemini South captures first direct evidence of an exoplanet being swallowed by an ancient Sun-like star. For the first time, scientists have directly observed a…
More observations will be needed to determine if exoplanet GJ 486 b has an atmosphere. GJ 486 b is about 30% larger than the Earth…
Radio emissions originating about 12 light-years outside our solar system reveal possible magnetic interactions between star YZ Ceti and its prospective close-orbiting, rocky planet. Researchers…
Gas giants orbiting our sun show a clear pattern; the more massive the planet, the lower the percentage of “heavy” elements (anything other than hydrogen…
The amount of infrared light coming from TRAPPIST-1 b suggests that the planet is devoid of any significant atmosphere. Acting as a giant touch-free thermometer,…
Imagine a gaseous exoplanet five times the size of Jupiter but much closer to its star as Mercury is to our Sun. This planet orbits…
Study Narrows James Webb Space Telescope Targets With the first paper compiling all known information about planets like Venus beyond our solar system, scientists are…
Weather report: Expect scattered, patchy clouds made up of silicates on planet VHS 1256 b. Ever had hot sand whip across your face? That’s a…
