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Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

Astronomers have produced the first-ever three-dimensional map of a planet outside our solar system — WASP-18b — marking a ...

According to the researchers, because it is rocky and located in the star's habitable zone, it may be habitable.

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

A recently discovered exoplanet, a planet that exists beyond our solar system, called GJ 251c is a super-Earth located just 18 light-years away from our ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

What can a 3D map of an exoplanet’s atmosphere teach astronomers about the planet’s formation, evolution, and composition?

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...