European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

Scientists using a NASA space telescope have discovered a tantalizing world. It's about the size of Earth, sits remarkably close to our solar system, and could be comfortable for life as we know it.

Scientists have discovered that a distant "hot Jupiter" world has a planetary companion. The two planets are locked in a rhythmic dance around the star TOI-1408, located 455 light-years from Earth.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has made a fascinating discovery, locating a new exoplanet that falls in size between Earth and Venus. This finding has piqued the interest of ...

A star's magnetic field must be considered in order to correctly determine the characteristics of exoplanets from observations by space telescopes such as Kepler, James Webb, or PLATO. Researchers ...

Exoplanet TOI 1227 b is being bombarded by x-rays from its host red dwarf star, causing it to “shrink from the size of ...

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Determining the size of an Earth-size exoplanet by the amount of starlight it blocks hundreds of light-years away once was the realm of science fiction. Measuring the mass of such a small planet based ...

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 ...

What: New JWST observations probe the possible atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1 e, an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a ...

"We detected another planet even closer to the star that interacts strongly with its big neighbor, causing their orbits to wobble in ways we've never seen before." When you purchase through links on ...

From the brightness variations of its host star, an exoplanet’s size and other properties can be determined. In order to avoid mistakes, the star’s magnetic field is decisive 700 light years away from ...