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The search for life beyond our planet continues, and one of the most underappreciated tools in an astrobiologist's toolkit is ...
The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, some in the so-called habitable zone, Does that mean these planets could ...
When scientists began to plot exoplanets based on things like their widths and the time they take to orbit their stars, many ...
TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...
Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...
Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
Learn more about TWA 7 b, an exoplanet with the mass of Saturn that was captured by creating a fake eclipse.
Other citizen science groups contributed as well, including the TESS Follow-up Observing Program Sub Group 1 (TFOP SG1) and ...
An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...
A never-before-seen planet! 🪐 This is Webb’s first discovery of a planet using direct imaging. With a mass similar to Saturn ...