exoplanets

Yesterday brought the tragic news that the famous 1,000-foot radio dish at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico wil…

Since the 1990s, astronomers have catalogued more than 3,000 exoplanets using a fairly basic detection technique…

Astrobiologists have identified 24 exoplanets that aren’t just potentially habitable, they’re potentially superhabita…

The newly deployed CHEOPS space telescope has completed its first observations of an exoplanet, uncovering some…

The unprecedented discovery of a Jupiter-sized planet in orbit around a white dwarf star suggests it’s possible for…

A new estimate suggests the Milky Way contains more free-floating planets than stars. It’s a big claim, but an…

This first-of-its-kind image reveals a star system just 300 light-years from Earth. It was captured by the Very…

Single-celled organisms like Escherichia coli and yeast can grow and survive in an atmosphere like the kind…

A known exoplanet has disappeared from sight, prompting speculation among astronomers that it was never a planet in…

A team of astronomers shocked the world back in 2016 when they revealed evidence of an Earth-sized exoplanet in the…

For years, a dedicated team of experts has manually sifted through troves of rejected Kepler data in hopes of…

Don’t forget to bring your sturdiest umbrella when you travel to the extra-hot planet WASP-76b, where it may literall…

Astronomers have documented a bizarre cycle of molecular destruction and rebirth on an ultra-hot, Jupiter-like…

Scientists have discovered evidence of a star system that might foreshadow the fate of our own.

A new method might tell scientists whether or not a rocky exoplanet—the kind of exoplanet most similar to Earth—has…

Of the nearly 1 million stars chronicled by the Kepler telescope, few have captured as much attention as KIC…

For the first time ever, astronomers have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet. Intriguingly,…

This hot Jupiter is so close to its host star that gravitational forces are squeezing it into a football-like shape.…

Scientists have detected a signal around an exoplanet that might be the signature of a circumplanetary disk—a disk…

Scientists have discovered a pair of temperate, Earth-sized exoplanet candidates around a nearby star, according to…