By Dave Prosper Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the ...

Astronomers have been trying to discover evidence that worlds exist around stars other than our Sun since the 19th century.

There are many methods of finding exoplanets, but a few approaches dominate the field. The "transit" method (short for transit photometry) is useful for finding star systems with planets that ...

Neptune, TOI-270 d provides a critical opportunity to understand atmospheric composition and planetary evolution in a ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

He added: "TESS is a satellite orbiting above Earth's atmosphere, scanning the sky for exoplanets using the transit method." The transit detection method involves observing changes in the ...

Dr Ian Whittaker from Nottingham Trent University explains the science behind new study which claims to have spotted ...

Recently, a new discovery has been made in the astronomy world in the form of a new exoplanet, Wolf 327b, which orbits the ...

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...