Artist’s rendition of the Kepler-47 circumbinary planet system with its three planets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle A new technique developed in part by University of Hawaiʻi…
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Astronomers detected the temporary dimming of X-rays from a system where a massive star is in orbit around a neutron star or black hole (shown…
The artist impressions depicted in this montage imagine some of the different types of exoplanets and their host stars that might be studied by Cheops.…
By implementing artificial intelligence techniques similar to those used in autonomous cars, a team from the UNIGE and the UniBE, in partnership with the company…
Artist’s conception of the central portion of the Next Generation Very Large Array. Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF NRAO project ranked as important new initiative. The…
Rocky debris, the pieces of a former rocky planet that has broken up, spiral inward toward a white dwarf in this illustration. Studying the atmospheres…
Astronomers have found evidence for a possible planet candidate in the M51 (“Whirlpool”) galaxy, representing what could be the first planet detected outside of the…
Planets that are between 1.7 and 3.5 times the diameter of Earth are sometimes called “sub-Neptunes.” There are no planets in this size range in…
Astronomers have found evidence for a possible planet candidate in the M51 (“Whirlpool”) galaxy, representing what could be the first planet detected outside of the…
An MIT-led team has discovered evidence of a giant impact in the nearby HD 17255 star system, in which an Earth-sized terrestrial planet and a…
The fiery exoplanet WASP-76b – a so-called hot Jupiter, where it rains iron – may be hotter than previously thought. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Considered an…
An illustration of the TRAPPIST-1 system of seven planets around an M-dwarf star. The star has both strong UV and X-ray emission as well as…
This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, shows wide (left) and close-up (right) views of the…
An artist’s conception of cold planet distribution throughout the Milky Way. For comparison, the cyan cone is the Kepler transit survey field. The inset shows…
Astronomers have identified a new class of habitable planets, dubbed ‘Hycean’ planets – hot, ocean-covered planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres – which could represent a big…
This artist’s impression shows the Nu2 Lupi planetary system, which was recently explored by ESA’s exoplanet observer CHEOPS. Credit: © ESA The exoplanetAn exoplanet (or…
An artist’s rendering of TOI-1231 b, a Neptune-like planet about 90 light years away from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The planet: TOI-1231 b The discovery: A…
This artist’s impression shows L 98-59b, one of the planets in the L 98-59 system 35 light-years away. The system contains four confirmed rocky planets…
Artist’s impression of the Nu2 Lupi planetary system. Credit: © ESA While exploring two exoplanets in a bright nearby star system, ESA’s exoplanet-hunting Cheops satellite…