A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

The search for extraterrestrial life oscillates between hope and skepticism. A recent study reports promising clues about a ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme — triggering stellar flares from their own ...

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

A team of astronomers, led by three Yale scientists, has developed a new technique to determine the presence of exoplanets by observing the surface of stars. Debra Fischer, professor of astronomy at ...

However, the question of whether the exoplanet we're looking at has a surface or not — whether it's a super-Earth or a mini-Neptune — might be answerable as soon as the James Webb Space ...

The team asserts that rocky surfaces on exoplanets exhibit unique chemical signatures, along with volcanic surfaces, and surface water ice. If an exoplanet has a thin atmosphere, it may introduce ...

Turyshev’s plan would take advantage of this effect by sending a telescope on a 60 billion-mile journey to the sun’s focal region to photograph a habitable, Earth-like exoplanet that is up to ...

Exoplanets; Exoplanet's surface may be covered in oceans, James Webb Space Telescope finds. News. By Robert Lea published 11 September 2023 ...

Habitability isn’t binary Artist’s concept of the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f, located in the TRAPPIST-1 system. NASA/Tim Pyle/JPL-Caltech ...