WASP-12 b, A Planet Being Consumed By Its Own Sun
A newly published study takes a closer look at WASP-12 b, a planet that is being consumed by its own star. A planet roughly 1.4…
A newly published study takes a closer look at WASP-12 b, a planet that is being consumed by its own star. A planet roughly 1.4…
The French space agency CNES has announced that the Convection, Rotation, and Planetary Transits (CoRoT) satellite is on its last legs. The satellite suffered a…
A team of astronomers reanalyzed data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to further examine whether the star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet, named Fomalhaut b,…
Astronomers have uncovered a low-mass planet orbiting α Centauri B, a member of the stellar system neighboring our Solar System. Although the exoplanet is nearly…
A team of international astronomers, aided by volunteer scientists using the Planethunters.org website, discovered a circumbinary planet in a four-star system, called PH1. The discovery…
Astronomers have discovered that two exoplanets are overlapping in the skies as they cross their star. The phenomenon is new enough that it doesn’t have…
A newly published study examines the “habitable zone” that scientists believe might play a role in the survival of extreme life forms, like lichens and…
Scientists have discovered the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our solar system. Located at the center of this system…
Located 33 light-years away, exoplanet candidate UCF-1.01 was discovered when astronomers studying exoplanet GJ 436b noticed slight dips in the amount of infrared light streaming…
Using a new method that involves studying the carbon monoxide signature of a planet’s atmosphere, scientists were able to measure the exact mass of a…
Similar to Jupiter, exoplanet HD 189733b is a gas giant that circles its star, named HD 189733A, at a distance of only 3 million miles…
NASA’s Kepler mission discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one and now astronomers from Penn State have precisely…
According to calculations, an exoplanet similar in size to Mercury and roughly 1,500 light years away, is slowly disintegrating and leaving behind a trail of…
Tidal heating, which is basically the gravitational heating of a planet via tides, suggests that the number of habitable planets could be roughly half of…
Sitting 40 million light-years away, researchers were able to gain a better understanding of 55 Cancri e and its environment. Using observations from NASA’s Spitzer…
As NASA’s Kepler Mission continues to supply important data and continuously monitors stars for transit signals, astronomers from Cornell University focused on 80 M dwarf…
Scientists now have a better understanding of gas giant exoplanets and what is going on in their cores. By studying computer simulations, scientists believe that…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers probed the atmosphere around the transiting super-Earth known as GJ1214b and concluded that unless the atmosphere has a thick…