Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than ... The more they learned about SIMP 0136, the more it appeared to be an exoplanet, albeit one lacking a star to orbit.

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

Even lesser-known are companion planets to hot Jupiters -- planets that orbit the same star as a hot Jupiter. One method for hunting exoplanets, known as Transit Timing Variation (TTV), uses the ...

An international team, including University of Geneva researchers, discovered a super-Earth named TOI-512 b orbiting a star ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

Instead, the title of “most abundant” belongs to the class of super-Earths ... of an exoplanet’s existence requires at least three transit observations, so a Jupiter-sized planet in a ...

Explore 30 years of exoplanet ... The super-Earth in this illustration is in a planetary system whose central star is a red dwarf. Super-Earths are larger than our planet but smaller ...