While searching Kepler data for exomoons, astronomers discovered the first Earth-mass planet that crosses in…
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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.
Researchers announced that ground-based follow-up observations of Kepler’s exoplanet systems have resulted in the discovery…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers from the University of Chicago have detected…
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for determining the mass of exoplanets using only…
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that is unlike anything in our own Solar System. HD…
Using Hubble’s high-performance Wide Field Camera 3, astronomers have peered into the atmospheres of five…
Using computer models of the climates and biospheres, astrobiologists are researching how signs of life…
Based on a statistical analysis of all the Kepler data, astronomers now estimate that one…
The latest analysis of Kepler Space Telescope data has revealed the discovery of 833 new…
Using planetary models based on measurements of our sun’s carbon-to-oxygen ratio, researchers found that planets…
Astronomers used data from NASA’s Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes to produce a very low-resolution…
A new study demonstrates how to distinguish between cloudy mini-Neptunes and volatile-dominated super-Earths based on…
This short narrative looks back on how NASA engineers revamped the Spitzer Space Telescope to…
By using habitable zone and stellar evolution models, astrobiologists from the University of East Anglia…
New research presented to the European Planetary Science Congress at UCL aims to explore how…
A new technique developed by astronomers simplifies the measurement of a star’s surface gravity using…
Scientists from MIT have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet, named Kepler 78b, that orbits its star…
NASA has announced that all attempts to fully restore Kepler have failed and that they…