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 ...

Since its launch in 2009, NASA's Kepler mission has used the transit method to confirm more than 60 new exoplanets and to identify 2,300 candidate planets now awaiting confirmation via further ...

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 ...

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

STEP 1: After learning about the different methods used to find exoplanets, players use the transit method to identify stars that seem to have planets orbiting them. This method allows them to ...

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 ...

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

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