A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly ...

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, or TTVs for short. Let's set the scene. One of the primary ways of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they said, had detected signs of a liquid water ocean — and possibly life — on the exoplanet K2-18b, a temperate sub-Neptune world located about 124 light ...

More than 5,900 of these exoplanets have been identified so far: What was once the exclusive province of science fiction has now become science fact. The title of Keith Cooper’s “Amazing ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected three new hot Jupiter exoplanets orbiting three distant K dwarf stars. The finding was ...

Exoplanets are the celestial bodies orbiting stars other than our Sun. Their small size makes them difficult to detect from Earth, particularly as they appear much dimmer than their parent stars ...

A Saturn-sized exoplanet, TOI-5573 b, has been detected orbiting an M-dwarf star about 606 light years away. With a mass of 0.35 M J and a radius of 0.87 R J , it has a low density of 0.66 g/cm 3 ...

A small red dwarf star is challenging our knowledge of how planets form by coexisting with a massive exoplanet, much like a family with tall children and short parents. As our solar system ...

The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit. Credit ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent analyses discount the evidence. An artist’s concept of the exoplanet K2 ...

These exoplanets, as scientists call them, are worlds of lava, and worlds of water. They're worlds being ravaged by the heat ...

In these systems, exoplanets tend to be found at greater distances, in orbits that have them circling both stars. On Wednesday, scientists described a system that seems to be neither of the above.