Artist’s depiction of the star EK Draconis ejecting a coronal mass ejection as two planets orbit. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan In the search…
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This artist’s conception illustrates a Jupiter-like planet alone in the dark of space, floating freely without a parent star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This artist’s conception illustrates…
Webb Space Telescope Provides New Tools To Search for the Building Blocks of Life on Distant Planets
This artist’s conception shows the fully unfolded James Webb Space Telescope in space. Credit: Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA Animator How NASA in Silicon Valley Will…
This is an artist’s Illustration of the mini-Neptune TOI 560.01, located 103 light-years away in the Hydra constellation. The planet, which orbits closely to its…
Artist’s impression of WASP-189b, an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 133112 which is one of the hottest stars known to have a planetary system. Credit:…
Illustration of a “super Neptune,” TOI-674 b, with an atmosphere that, according to a recent study, includes water vapor. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The discovery: Water vapor…
Artist’s rendition of what a planetary system similar to TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b, and TOI- 2669b might look like, where a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits an evolved,…
A map of the sky is now crowded with over 5,000 exoplanet candidates from NASA’s TESS mission. The TESS Science Office at MIT released the…
A gas giant exoplanet that orbits a G-type star, which is similar to TOI-2180 b. Credit: NASA A UC Riverside astronomer and a group of…
Artist’s rendition of what a planetary system similar to TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b, and TOI- 2669b might look like, where a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits an evolved,…
Artist impression of planet WASP-103b and its host star. Credit: ESA ESA’s exoplanet An exoplanet (or extrasolar planet) is a planet that is outside the…
Planet XO-3b has an internal source of heat, possibly from tidal heating, which is caused by the squeezing of the planet’s interior by the gravity…
An artist’s conception of the cross section of a super-Earth with the NIF target chamber superimposed over the mantle, looking into the core. Credit: Image…
This illustration depicts a Jupiter-like exoplanet called TOI-2180 b. It was discovered in data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt Tom Jacobs…
This illustration captures an exoplanet as it is about to cross in front of – or transit – its star. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight…
The discovery of a second exomoon candidate hints at the possibility that exomoons may be as common as exoplanets. Credit: Helena Valenzuela Widerström An exomoon…
Artist’s impression of planets orbiting a red dwarf. Credit: Mark Garlick Led by the University of BernFounded in 1834, the University of Bern (German: Universität…
An artist’s impression of a star’s dusty debris disk, thought to be produced when asteroids or other planetesimals collide and fragment. Astronomers studying the debris…
An artist’s concept of a “hot Jupiter” extrasolar planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech By combining Hubble Space TelescopeThe Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as Hubble or…
How rare in the galaxy are rocky planets like Earth in similar orbits around Sun-like stars? The question turns out to be surprisingly difficult to…