Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the first confirmed discovery in the 1990s, more than 5,000 have been ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Two exoplanets have been detected orbiting the metal-poor, sun-like star HD 35843. HD 35843 c is a sub-Neptune, 2.5 times Earth's radius and 11.3 times its mass ...

Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars outside of our solar system, also known as extrasolar planets. 1. Glowing a dark magenta, the newly discovered exoplanet GJ 504b is the lowest-mass planet ...

No planets cooler than about 35.33 degrees Fahrenheit had ever been detected. An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to ...

Researchers have developed a new coronagraph that could make it possible to see distant exoplanets obscured by light from their parent stars. Researchers have developed a new coronagraph -- an ...

Two new exoplanets have been discovered orbiting a star belonging to a binary pair located about 250 light-years from Earth in the Draco constellation. | Credit: Martin Farnir Astronomers have ...

This Collection highlights the results from the Early Science Release programme of the JWST telescope focused on transiting hot giant exoplanets. With its extended wavelength range and its ...

They flagged potential oceans and air sources on the exoplanet dubbed LHS 1140 b, situated within the constellation Cetus in our night sky. Although the name isn’t so moving, its potential is.

But ever since the first exoplanet was discovered, it’s been increasingly clear that our Sun isn’t the only one in the universe with a handful of planets orbiting it. Over the last three ...

The type of orbit an exoplanet occupies could result in astronomers missing out on possible radio transmissions coming from the planet. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI ...

As of this writing, the tally of confirmed exoplanets (that is, planets orbiting stars other than the sun) stands at just shy of 5,500 in more than 4,000 planetary systems. Exoplanets make up an ...

The Kepler Space Telescope was retired in 2018 after a nine-year mission that saw it discover an incredible 2,600 confirmed exoplanets, kicking off the modern era of exoplanet research.