"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

Artist's view of WASP-107b. The planet’s low density and the intense irradiation from its star allow helium to escape the planet and form an asymmetric extended and diffuse envelope around it.

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP-121b for an entire orbit with the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a ...

This collection celebrates the 30 th anniversary of the detection of the first planet outside our Solar System orbiting a main sequence star. Experts reflect on the impact of various milestones in ...

There are thousands of known exoplanets, many of which are too dark to directly see, but scientists have made a 3D map by combining multiple imaging techniques.

The RISTRETTO project, dedicated to observing Proxima b –the closest exoplanet to the Solar System — is reaching a new milestone: several key components of this high-precision spectrograph have been ...

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