The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

Arizona State University continues its rapid rise in planetary astronomy, welcoming two new 51 Pegasi b Fellows to its exoplanet research team in fall 2025. The Heising-Simons Foundationawarded the ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

An observational tango has thus emerged between the two methods. The transit method generates a large number of “candidates”, ...

An international team, including University of Geneva researchers, discovered a super-Earth named TOI-512 b orbiting a star ...

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Pop and slosh: a high-speed recording of popping a homebrewed bottle of beer (courtesy: Max Koch) While the physics of uncorking a bottle of champagne has been well documented, less is known about the ...

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 ...

Located 130 light-years from Earth, the exoplanets orbit the young main-sequence star HR 8799, around which they're thought to have formed roughly 30 million years ago. Far-away exoplanets are ...

Astronomers have spotted two fascinating exoplanets around TOI-1453. One is a super-Earth, the other an ultra-light sub-Neptune, possibly cloaked in a thick atmosphere. (Artists view of TOI-1453.) ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope uncovered a new milestone in exoplanet research by capturing images of exoplanets containing carbon dioxide in their atmospheres. This discovery, within the HR ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday. The gas giants are ...