"I can realistically say that we can confirm this signal within one to two years." But outside experts pointed to disputes over previous discoveries about the exoplanet, adding that these ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

It may sound surprising that the scientists were “trying to get rid of the signal,” but that’s exactly how detections like this work. Pretty much all of the exoplanets we’ve ever seen are ...

In a first, a pair of unusual stars has been revealed to have an equally unusual companion – an exoplanet that orbits ... they found an unexpectedly strange signal in the data.

The signal the astronomers report in the paper is actually the second such detection of the chemical or chemicals on the exoplanet. An “earlier, tentative inference of DMS” was made with one set of ...

The planetary nature of this signal was confirmed by follow-up observations using ground-based facilities. "In this paper, we present the discovery of TOI-3493 b, a small exoplanet with a mass ...

the disintegrating exoplanet was discovered “almost by chance”; they were not looking for it. They became aware of it in the data from the TESS space telescope because its signal looked unusual.

Astronomers have just uncovered fascinating signs we may not be alone in the universe. RNZ talks with an astrophysicist about ...