Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...
Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.
The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...
Where will we first find life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to ...
Researchers present strong evidence for a planet circling two brown dwarfs on a near polar path. The orbit is tilted almost ...
The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters. — -- An international team of astronomers has discovered seven potentially habitable exoplanets — or planets outside our solar system — that ...
Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...
A global team of astronomers led by a Turkish scientist has discovered four new exoplanets, one of which lies within the ...
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In a First, Astronomers Saw a Distant Star Shoot Some of Its Plasma Into Space
The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby ...
Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop—but instead of a chicken egg, you find an ostrich egg, much larger than anything a chicken could lay. That’s a little like how our team ...
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