Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

TESS hunts for exoplanets by looking for a temporary decrease in a star's brightness, also known as the transit method. When a dip in brightness is observed, that suggests a planet has passed in ...

However, after re-evaluating using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered that Enaiposha shares more similarities with Venus than previously thought, leading to the proposal of ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

Astronomers have identified an exoplanet named Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b, located 47 light-years from Earth.

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

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