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A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...
Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.
TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...
The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
Named TOI-4465 b, the exoplanet caught astronomers' attention as it acts as a bridge between scorching gas giants and ice ...
How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...
W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of star system HR 8799 have been time-lapsed. The system hosts four planets that are more ...
"We show how planets in binary systems can undergo a mirrored migration process, so that both stars end up with hot Jupiters.
The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...
What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...