Perhaps the James Webb telescope, which will return its first cosmic images in July 2022, will peer deeper into this exoplanet's atmosphere. Planetary scientists discovered a giant, still-forming ...

From a scorching super-Earth to a football-shaped world, here are the greatest alien planet stories of 2022. After 30 years of exoplanet discoveries, the tally of confirmed alien worlds reached ...

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

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

A research team led by Caroline Piaulet, a PhD student at the University of Montreal’s Institute for Research on Exoplanets, used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to observe the ...

In August 2022, Webb captured the first clear evidence for carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere. (We don’t have a picture of it yet, but the planet is a gas giant orbiting a Sun-like ...

Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey ...

(Web Desk) - A ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet has been found outside of our solar system and it could have the right conditions to sustain life. The new planet, named HD 20794 d, was originally discovered ...

Back then, exoplanet hunting was a risky venture ... is a Malaysian-born freelance science writer and a Popular Science’s spring 2022 editorial intern. She writes broadly about different ...

Collect them all. NASA JPL announced a cosmic milestone on Monday with the confirmed discovery of more than 5,000 exoplanets. A new batch of 65 planets located outside our solar system joined ...

More than 5,000 exoplanets have been discovered and “confirmed” by NASA out of the billions that exist in our Milky Way galaxy alone. In 2022, over 300 exoplanets were identified, including ...

The discovery was first made using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which surveys "200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun to search for transiting exoplanets." ...