NASA’s Cassini Mission and Hubble Space Telescope are providing new details about ocean-bearing moons of…
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Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system, and their discovery has revolutionized our understanding of the universe and the potential for life beyond Earth. Scientists study exoplanets to learn about their sizes, compositions, atmospheres, and orbital dynamics, using techniques like transit observations and radial velocity measurements. Some exoplanets resemble Earth, raising exciting possibilities about habitable conditions and biosignatures. This page brings you the latest research and discoveries in exoplanet science, from newly detected worlds to insights into how planetary systems form and evolve across the galaxy.
NASA is set to release new details on ocean worlds discovered by Hubble and the…
Using Kepler data, Yale astronomers have discovered a Neptune-sized exoplanet – Kepler-150 f. Yale astronomers…
New research suggests that HD 106906b formed outside the debris disk, where it’s visible today,…
Astronomers plan to use the James Webb Space Telescope to detect atmospheric features of the…
https://youtu.be/bBr0C_lzDm4 ESOcast 96 explores the discovery of Earth-like, potentially habitable worlds orbiting a nearby star…
A new website funded by NASA lets the public search for new worlds in the…
Carnegie Institution for Science has made a huge dataset of 1,600 nearby stars available to…
New research expands how habitable zones are defined by taking into account the impact of…
A newly published study provides a list of habitable zone exoplanet candidates from the Kepler…
A team of astronomers view a shadow sweeping around a gas-and-dust disk encircling the young…
Researchers from Yale University have developed a new approach to detect distant planets and refine…
A group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers have discovered a star surrounded by the…
Data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and computer modeling show an approximation of what various…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has confirmed the existence of a…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics take a closer look at migrating exoplanets. Many…
https://youtu.be/piBrE4sFZG8 In this six-minute ESOcast video astronomers discuss the newly discovered Proxima b and the…
Using data from NASA’s Juno probe, astronomers hope to gain a better understanding of Jupiter…