HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...

In 2021, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spotted the super-Earth, a fascinating development that suggested WASP-132 is a remarkable planetary system. Scientists now know the ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has had an impact on astronomy since its launch on Christmas Day 2021 that cannot be ... or extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets." But reality often doesn ...

The 23rd century could see launches of human-crewed interstellar missions to exoplanets within about 40 light-years while missions to other galaxies will have to wait until the end of the 24th ...

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 ...

"We might learn things we never thought about," Mercedes López-Morales, an exoplanet researcher and astrophysicist at the ...

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021, is scrutinizing these same bright stars. The transit method is best at spotting exoplanets that orbit very close to their stars.

The automated telescope will be used to detect exoplanets and other celestial bodies which are difficult to watch from other latitudes, it was announced. The “Argentine Antarctic Robotic ...

The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could ...

Since the discovery of the first planet outside the solar system in the mid-1990s, the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries. Many of these exoplanets are ...