The 4.4-meter-aperture telescope, led by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and situated at the Lenghu astronomical ...

NASA has officially launched its Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission, marking the beginning of a 16-month ...

When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant ...

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Imaging exoplanets with the solar gravitational lens (SGL) faces major technical challenges, including solar corona noise, the sun’s quadrupole moment, and ...

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 ...

Beyond our solar system, sub-Neptunes — gassy planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune — reign as the most common type of exoplanet observed in our galaxy. Despite their prevalence ...

And, if all goes to plan, those forthcoming data would accelerate detections of temperatures, ages and masses of exoplanets similar to Jupiter and Saturn. "That's a big step forward," said Limbach.

Planet TOI-421b lacks the haze of other exoplanets, which means we're able to get a surprisingly clear understanding of it. Tyler is a writer under CNET's home energy and utilities category.

Doubts over signs of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b are rising: 'This is evidence of the scientific process at work' — This rare exoplanet system has 6 'sub-Neptunes' with mathematically perfect ...

"One of the most exciting prospects in exoplanet science today is discovering the origin and makeup of sub-Neptunes, which are high-occurrence planets that have no solar system analog," the study ...