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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been detected since, more than 4,000 of them were discovered through the transit method. Most of those observations were made by the exoplanet-hunting ...