So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the ...
Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...
Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new warm Jupiter ...
A new study compares young and old exoplanets to uncover how worlds shrink, migrate and evolve over time — offering insights ...
Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...
The discovery of a small protoplanetary disk has implications for the commonality of a particular kind of extrasolar planet, ...
From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...
The Orion Nebula — where young stars are being actively born — serves as a natural laboratory for uncovering the secrets ...