Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

The Transit Method – A planet passing in front of its parent star creates a drop in the star’s apparent brightness, called a transit. Exoplanet Watch participants can look for transits in data from ...

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

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(Courtesy: ESO/L Calçada) The first strong evidence for an exoplanet with an orbit perpendicular to that of the binary system it orbits has been observed by astronomers in the UK and Portugal. Based ...

Fare evasion on New York City’s subways and buses continues to decline as the nation’s largest transit agency seeks to get more riders to pay for service. About 9.8% of subway riders skipped ...