The president’s proposed budget includes major cuts to NASA — among them, the elimination of funding for the Nancy Grace ...

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

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 ...

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

Only 43 (to date) have been observed directly (about 0.5% of them). Most are discovered through indirect means, such as radial velocity or the transit method. The transit method is where you look at ...

This work is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. To detect exoplanets, astronomers mainly use two methods: the transit method and the radial velocity method. The first involves observing the ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

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

The transit method is where you look at how the brightness ... Looking at the atmosphere of an exoplanet is even more difficult. Scientists use spectroscopy to do this. The light coming out ...