Recently, astronomers have been finding protoplanetary discs around certain stars. Their discovery has helped kick off a new work in…
It's a hat-trick! Astronomers may have spotted the first ever known planet orbiting not one, not two, but three stars.…
WASP-76b is an ultra-hot Jupiter about 640 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pisces. A few years ago it…
When we directly observe distant worlds, some exoplanets might appear Earth-like, even when they are not.
We'd love to find another planet like Earth. Not exactly like Earth; that's kind of ridiculous and probably a little…
All hail the occulter: an orbiting starshade for ground-based telescopes. (more…)
When it comes to finding exoplanets, size matters, but so does weight. The larger and heavier the planet, the more…
The stellar flares of red dwarfs are mostly directed from their poles, which is good news for potentially habitable planets.
Tracking exoplanets is hard - especially when that exoplanet is so far away from its parent star that the normally…
Planetary formation is a complicated, multilayered process. Even with the influx of data on exoplanets, there are still only two…