New Era of Exoplanet Discovery: Direct Imaging of “Jupiter’s Younger Sibling”
Scientists have used a technique called astrometry to directly image one of the lowest-mass planets, AF Lep b, orbiting a young Sun-like star. This method…
Scientists have used a technique called astrometry to directly image one of the lowest-mass planets, AF Lep b, orbiting a young Sun-like star. This method…
Astronomers from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy have discovered a planet that survived what should have been a catastrophic event caused by its…
Located 374 light years away from Earth, HD169142 b has been confirmed as a protoplanet by a team of researchers from the University of Liège…
A study from the University of Rochester, using zircon crystals, found that plate tectonics was inactive during the period when life first appeared on Earth….
In its final days of operation in 2018, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope potentially discovered its last planets. Scientists from MIT and the University of Wisconsin…
Infrared measurements of TRAPPIST-1 c indicate that it is probably not as Venus-like as once imagined. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has successfully measured the…
A study spearheaded by an astronomer from Indiana University presents a challenge to the established ideas about the solitary nature of “hot Jupiters,” proposing a…
It is only the second such system found with 2 planets. An international team of astronomers is the first to apply an old technique to…
Newly discovered exoplanets contribute to the development of a novel model that offers potential explanations for the origin of some of Earth’s signature features, such…
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…