"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new warm Jupiter ...

This process required a great deal of care, the development of a custom visualization tool kit, and the manual inspection of each light curve by UCLA undergraduate Paige Entrica. "If stars behaved ...

The new exoplanet is the youngest ever discovered in the history of research and is located over 500 million light-years away from us. This discovery represents a breakthrough in studying planet ...

An international team of astronomers has reported the detection of a new exoplanet orbiting a bright late F-type star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-6038 A b, is about six times larger and ...

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The two imaged infant planets, or "protoplanets," orbit the star PDS 70, located 370 light-years away in the ... being the only ones confirmed in an exoplanet catalog containing over 5,000 worlds ...

Astronomers have used a ground-breaking optical interferometry technique to study a Jupiter-like exoplanet located about 129 light years from Earth. The planet, dubbed HR8799e, has been described ...

NASA's TESS telescope has discovered an intriguing exoplanet, TOI-1453 c, located 250 light-years away, with an unusually low density. Measuring 2.2 times the size of Earth and 2.9 times its mass ...

Astronomers, utilizing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have identified water molecules in the atmosphere of GJ 9827d, a small exoplanet located 97 light-years away from Earth. The detection of water ...