Astronomers had to beat the clock to see the exoplanet before it disappeared for a decade. The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged its lowest mass extrasolar planet outside the solar ...

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Explore some of these distant worlds and strange worlds with us, how they compare to our own solar system planets, and the ways in which we search for them. We can even use Minecraft to simulate ...

Studying the chemical cloud has taken a long time because it is often obscured by WASP-49 b (left) and the exoplanet's home star WASP-49 (right). (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) In addition to ...

These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) orbit close to red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than the sun, and which make up over 75% of the 200 billion stars in the ...

In May 2024, the first exoplanet orbiting TIC 393818343 was detected. The planet, which received designation TIC 393818343 b, orbits the host every 16.25 days on an eccentric orbit .

Data from the massive telescope also suggests the exoplanet, the name for a planet outside the solar system, may also have a surface covered in water and an atmosphere rich with hydrogen.

Astronomers have discovered a new feature in the distribution of planets beyond the solar system, and this finding could help ...

The newly discovered exoplanet has around half the mass of Venus, which classifies it as a "sub-Earth." The exoplanet, ...

In recent years, the number of known extrasolar planets (aka. exoplanets) has grown exponentially. To date, 5,799 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,310 star systems, with thousands more ...

Marshall, J. P. Moro-Martín, A. Eiroa, C. Kennedy, G. Mora, A. Sibthorpe, B. Lestrade, J.-F. Maldonado, J. Sanz-Forcada, J. Wyatt, M. C. Matthews, B. Horner, J ...

When the first exoplanet was discovered in 1995, Sara Seager and Dave Charbonneau were graduate students at Harvard. Both were studying topics totally unrelated to planets orbiting distant stars.