After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...
European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...
An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...
Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...
The James Webb Telescope is reshaping our understanding of distant worlds, revealing exoplanet atmospheres, potential ...
Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.
Since then, over 6,000 confirmed exoplanets —or planets orbiting other stars—have been found, leading astronomers to conclude ...
NASA announces new 'super-Earth': Exoplanet orbits in 'habitable zone,' is only 137 light-years away
Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...
When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...
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NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft hears a red giant star 'singing' to its partner black hole
The rapidly spinning red giant star, a phase stellar bodies around the size of the sun enter when they exhaust their fuel for nuclear fusion, dwells in the binary system Gaia BH2. Located around 3,800 ...
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