As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...

Astronomers are stunned by a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star. This rare discovery defies existing theories and ...

PARIS: Astronomers announced on Wednesday they have discovered a massive planet orbiting a tiny star, a bizarre pairing that has stumped scientists. Most of the stars across the Milky Way are small ...

Excitement around the potential discovery of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b is fading as new analyses cast doubt on initial claims.

Draw an imaginary line from the magnitude 2.3 star Merak, which forms the outer base of the ... leading to periodic dips in brightness based on data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

HD 35843, or TOI 4189, is a metal-poor G-dwarf star with a radius of ... and HD 35843 c as a sub-Neptune exoplanet. It was noted that it is still too early to draw a final conclusion regarding ...

When Star Wars debuted in 1977, astronomers had yet to confirm an exoplanet with the same orbital ... they exhibit more than enough gravitational pull to draw objects into orbit.

While the researchers want to learn more about the exoplanet, named 2M1510 (AB) b, they can draw comparisons with the fictional Tatooine in Star Wars, a desert world that orbited two suns.

But they were reluctant to draw grand conclusions ... sub-Neptunes and other distant planets. As an exoplanet passes in front of its host star, its atmosphere, if it has one, is illuminated.

An exoplanet is a planet beyond the ... have discovered a fourth member in that ultra-light star system. These low-density specimens draw curiosity because they’ve somehow hung onto their ...

An artist’s rendering of Barnard’s Star, as seen from one of the newly discovered exoplanets orbiting it International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 ...

This result, drawing on more than two decades of observations, opens a window to future studies of Earth-like exoplanets that ... of light emitted by the host star, which could have been caused ...