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 ...

Among all the wonderful scientific achievements in 2022, astronomers have found more than 300 exoplanets – planets that are outside our solar system. NASA confirmed in March that there are ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, orbiting a sun-like star known as HD 35843. The finding was reported in a ...

On top of that, astronomers also discovered over 200 new planets in 2022, bringing the total known exoplanets up to over 5,000. The quest to find another world like Earth has been ongoing for ...

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 ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an aging star. The doomed world appears destined to spiral closer and closer to its expanding star until they ...

The first question astronomers want to answer about exoplanets: Do they have atmospheres friendly to life? The folded-up James Webb Space Telescope as it was prepared for mounting on a rocket and ...

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 ...

Most exoplanets have been found through the transit ... KMT-2021-BLG-2010Lb, KMT-2022-BLG-0371Lb, and KMT-2022-BLG-1013Lb. Each of these worlds revolves around a different star.

Since the first hot Jupiter was discovered in 1995, astronomers have been trying to figure out how the searing-hot exoplanets formed and arrived in their extreme orbits. Johns Hopkins University ...