An artist’s concept of GJ180d, which is the nearest temperate super-Earth to us that is not tidally locked to its star, making it more likely…
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Artist’s rendering of a “hot Jupiter” called KELT-9b, the hottest known exoplanet – so hot, a new paper finds, that even molecules in its atmosphere…
An artist created this illustration of the searing-hot gas planet WASP-12b and its star. A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that this exoplanet is…
TOI 1338 b is silhouetted by its host stars. TESS only detects transits from the larger star. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith Astronomers…
TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado, is home to TOI 700 d, the first Earth-size habitable-zone planet discovered by…
Conceptual image of water-bearing (left) and dry (right) exoplanets with oxygen-rich atmospheres. The red sphere is the M-dwarf star around which the exoplanets orbit. The…
ASTERIA deployed from the ISS on November 20, 2017. Credit: NASA Mission operators at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have lost contact with…
Phosphine, a molecule known on Earth for its smelly and toxic nature, may be a sure sign of alien life if detected in nearby exoplanets.…
Artist’s impression of an exoplanet smaller than Neptune. A new study suggests a reason why such planets rarely grow larger than Neptune: the planet’s magma…
K2-33b, shown in this illustration, is one of the youngest exoplanets detected to date using NASA Kepler Space Telescope. It makes a complete orbit around…
This illustration shows the white dwarf WDJ0914+1914 and its Neptune-like exoplanet. Since the icy giant orbits the hot white dwarf at close range, the extreme…
This artist’s impression shows a rocky exoplanet with a wispy, cloudy atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf star. Astronomers have identified a new method that could…
The Alpha Centauri group is the closest star – or solar – system outside of our own at a distance of 4.3 lightyears, and it…
An optical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Camilo Mejia Prada, shines a light on the interior of a testbed for an…
The nearest exoplanet Proxima Centauri b is situated in a multiple star system. This is what the system might look like when seen from the…
An artist’s impression of the rocky exoplanet Kepler-186f, which is one of the most promising candidates for a planet could potentially be habitable, but how…
This animated GIF builds up the southern sky mosaic from 13 TESS sectors. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS The glow of the Milky Way — our galaxy seen…
Rice University team models stellar activity on Milky Way neighbors to judge impact on planets. An exoplanet may seem like the perfect spot to set…
A giant-impacts phase in the evolution of planetary systems can explain the observations of close-in giant planets with eccentric orbits. As planetary systems evolve, gravitational…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Researchers using telescopes around the world confirmed and characterized an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star through a rare phenomenon known…