Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

Tracking exoplanets via orbital mechanics isn't easy. Plenty of variables could affect how a planet moves around its star, and determining which ones affect any given exoplanet requires a lot of data ...

Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet ...

No planets cooler than about 35.33 degrees Fahrenheit had ever been detected. An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to ...

Scientists identified the coldest exoplanet, WD 1856+534 b. The planet is a gas giant located 81 light-years from Earth. Temperatures on WD 1856+534 b reached -125°F (-87°C). Using the James ...

We can thank the tireless work of researchers and the data collected by missions like the now retired Kepler Space Telescope and the currently operating Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS ...

Beyond our solar system, sub-Neptunes — gassy planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune — reign as the most common type of exoplanet ... before NASA’s Kepler space telescope ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to play all kinds of havoc on their orbiting circumbinary planets. A ...

Jesus Luzardo has been one of the best pitchers in baseball. Max Kepler has also been heating up lately, though Kepler is still looking for more. In an article from Matt Gelb of The Athletic ...