A team of international scientists recently published the discovery of nine new hot Jupiter exoplanets in The Astronomical ...

A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing ...

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

To date, over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered using telescopes on the ground and in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

In the hunt for exoplanets, many seek out habitable worlds. There's comfort in discovering planets that remind us of ...

Thus far astronomers have identified more than 5,000 exoplanets, but among all of those, most seem to be either super-Earths ...

Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms ...

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

The move follows reports that the administration will cut the budget of NASA’s science arm by nearly 50%. And it comes amid a ...

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Excitement around the potential discovery of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b is fading as new analyses cast doubt on initial ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...