exoplanet
Even Really Massive Stars Seem to Have Planets
Can planets form around massive, hot stars? Some astronomers think they can't. According to the evidence, planets around stars exceeding…
TESS Finds a New Mars-Sized Planet (With the Density of Mercury)
Some planets orbit their stars so closely that they have extremely high surface temperatures and extremely rapid orbits. Most of…
An Exoplanet Reaches 2400 C in One Hemisphere. Does it Really Rain Iron?
WASP-76b is an ultra-hot Jupiter about 640 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Pisces. A few years ago it…
Aliens in 2,034 Nearby Star Systems Could use the Transit Method to see Earth
New research shows that a handful of nearby stars that are known to have planets could have been watching Earth…
Astronomers Have Found the Perfect Exoplanet to Study Another World’s Atmosphere
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has found a new planet, and the discovery of this sub-Neptune exoplanet has scientists excited…
Exoplanet Surveys are Leaning Towards the Possibility That our Solar System is… Normal
One of the unspoken caveats of most exoplanet discovery missions is that they only operate for a few years. Such…
TESS has Found 2,200 Potential Exoplanets so far
Exoplanetology has been on a tear recently. This is largely due to an abundance of data collected by a new…
Gliese 486b is a Hellish World With Temperatures Above 700 Kelvin
The CARMENES consortium recently discovered a super-Earth just 21 light-years away that will be the perfect test case for exoplanets…
There are Planets So Close to Their Stars That They Have Magma Oceans 100km Deep and Winds that Go 8000 km/h
200 light years away, “super earth” exoplanet K2-141b orbits a star so closely that its "year" is only 7 hours…
James Webb Will Look for Signs of Life on Planets Orbiting Dead Stars
Can the galaxy's dead stars help us in our search for life? A group of researchers from Cornell University thinks…