The burgeoning exoplanet catalog has delivered a multitude ... the graphic adding texture, color and shape as the real objects they are, some of them possibly harboring life." ...

An artist’s rendering of Barnard’s Star, as seen from one of the newly discovered exoplanets orbiting it International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere.

In a paper slated for publication April 14 in Science, Currie reports the first exoplanet jointly discovered through direct imaging and precision astrometry, a new indirect method that identifies a ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets ...

Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to the Sun, and researchers believe it may be able to sustain liquid water, which is vital for life, as we know it ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have delved into the atmosphere of the scorching hot exoplanet LTT 9779 b. Officially named Cuancoá, this Neptune-sized exoplanet was ...

Data from the massive telescope also suggests the exoplanet, the name for a planet outside the solar system, may also have a surface covered in water and an atmosphere rich with hydrogen.

In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called WASP-39b. But that detection was made indirectly, so the latest ...

The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could ...