In the past decade, the discovery of extrasolar planets has accelerated immensely. To date, 4,424 exoplanets have been confirmed in…
New research shows that a handful of nearby stars that are known to have planets could have been watching Earth…
Using data from TESS and a number of other observatories, an international team has found a system with three exoplanets…
Thanks to an international team astronomers led from MIT, a nearby Sun-like star has been spotted with a system of…
We have found more than 4,000 planets orbiting other stars. Life on distant worlds could find us in the same…
A machine learning algorithm created by scientists in the UK has confirmed 50 new exoplanets, effectively opening the door to…
A new study takes a hard look at the TRAPPIST-1 system to determine if its seven exoplanets could have viable…
There's a type of exoplanet that astronomers sometimes refer to as cotton candy planets, or super-puffs. They're mysterious, because their…
The CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite) spacecraft just opened the cover on its telescope. The spacecraft was launched on December 18th 2019 and…
Do you wonder how astronomers find all those exoplanets orbiting stars in distant solar systems? Mostly they use the transit…