Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way ...
Scientists have discovered a nearby exoplanet that is just a baby by planetary standards, located 520 light-years away.
The youngest exoplanets are actually still protected from certain detection methods by dust disks. In a "strange" case, this ...
The planet's home star, IRAS 04125+2902, sits just over 520 light-years from Earth, making it quite close in galactic terms.
If the planets of a system are "closely packed," then adding new planets to the mix would cause the system to go all haywire ...
The exoplanet's extreme circuit—which looks closer to a cucumber than a circle—follows one of the most drastically stretched-out orbits of all known exoplanets, planets that orbit stars ...
With a volume more than seven times that of Jupiter and a mass less than one-half Jupiter, WASP-17 b is one of the largest and puffiest known exoplanets ... and how they all come together to ...
The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 ... “By applying AI, the data will tell you things you didn’t know were there.” ...
The exoplanet would owe its signature fragrance to sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, colorless gasses known for their ...
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has added to the exoplanet inventory by observing a significant fraction of the celestial sphere, including many stars already known to host exoplanets ...