Medicine & TechnologyStudies using ESO's Very Large Telescope have identified the hidden Jupiter-like exoplanet in a not-so-distant star AF Leporis. Read the article to learn more details.
Observations on the exoplanets of the first extrasolar planetary system ever directly imaged were compiled to make the timelapse video. Tap the article to learn more.
The doomed exoplanet was first discovered by the Kepler space telescope and its unfortunate fate could lead to new insights into other planets and their evolving star systems. Read the article to learn more details about its impending demise.
Astronomers found evidence that the two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are "water worlds" where water makes up a large fraction of their volume. Read the article to learn more.
Check out the most detailed view of the exoplanet WASP-39b, which was the subject of the first-ever detection of carbon dioxide in its atmosphere earlier this year.
Scientists identified a characteristic in red dwarf stars that might help explain the Red Sky Paradox. Read the article to know more about the said paradox and what it says about the rarity of life on Earth.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) launches the NameExoWorlds 2022 competition to name an exoplanet and its host star. Check out how to join the competition in this article.
Scientists found that Neptune-sized exoplanets orbiting bright massive stars get stripped of their outer layers, which might explain why there are only a few of them found. Continue reading to know more.
The first-ever exoplanets were discovered in 1992 and astronomers found them in a rapidly rotating star called a pulsar. Read the article on why they could be extraordinarily rare.
The two new planets of rocky mineral goodness are found orbiting a star that is close to the galactic neighborhood of the Solar System. Check out these new worlds in this article.
Astronomers discovered two rocky exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star. Find out how the use of NASA’s TESS was able to identify the extraterrestrial worlds.
A new study proves that ground-based telescopes can look for a planet that orbits two suns, such as the Kepler-16b. See this real-life Tatooine planet, which was home to Luke Skywalker in Star Wars.
A research team from Australia recently spent seven hours listening in search of signs of extraterrestrial life or civilization but they did not discover anything. Discovering such signs coming from things such as industry and street lights would offer proof of the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life in the Milky Way.
Astronomers detected two puffy 'mini-Neptune' exoplanets that are 103 light-years away from Earth and look like turning into super-Earths as they lose their atmospheres like steam from a pot of boiling water.