Astronomers have discovered a super-Earth, TOI-715 b, in a potentially habitable zone around a red dwarf star 137 light-years away. This planet, which is about…
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An amusing rendition of the TOI-1136 system if each body in the system were a duck or duckling. Credit: Rae Holcomb/UCI Researchers have unveiled a…
An artist’s illustration of the six newly discovered planets circling their star in resonance. Credit: Roger Thibaut (NCCR PlanetS) Researchers led by Rafael Luque discovered…
Artist’s conception of a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. Credit: Image by Katherine Cain, courtesy of the Carnegie…
Newly discovered Earth-size planet TOI 700 e orbits within the habitable zone of its star in this illustration. Its Earth-size sibling, TOI 700 d, can…
Illustration of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) at work. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration…
MIT astronomers have discovered a new multiplanet system that lies just 10 parsecs, or about 33 light-years, from Earth, making it one of the closest…
Artist’s impression of exocomets orbiting the star ß Pictoris. Credit: © ESO/L. Calçada For the past thirty years, astronomers have been fascinated with the star…
Artist concept of TESS observing an M dwarf star with orbiting planets. : NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center A team of astronomers have made the…
Artist’s conception of the 30 Ari star system. The system is composed of four stars. Credit: Art by Karen Teramura, UH IfA NASAEstablished in 1958,…
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 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,…
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…
Artist’s concept of a dark and mysterious object. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESSLaunched on April 18, 2018, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA’s…
The exoplanet GJ 367b orbits its star in an extremely short time. Only 8 hours, then a year has passed on this planet. We don’t…
An illustration of a red dwarf star orbited by an exoplanet. Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI) An international team of researchers has discovered a new planet,…
The exoplanet GJ 367b orbits its star in an extremely short time. Only 8 hours, then a year has passed on this planet. We don’t…
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…
An artist’s impression example of a white dwarf – in this image the white dwarf MV Lyrae – accreting as it draws in material from…