Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

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

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

The transit method is where you look at how the brightness of the star decreases as the planet passes in front of it. It will ...

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

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 ...

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 ...