NASA has released its first image of a planet outside of our solar system. Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of the exoplanet, described as a "gas giant." NASA ...
What can exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study posted to the arXiv preprint server and submitted to the American ...
The old adage that it's easier to prove a negative could play a crucial role in characterizing nearby exoplanets that could harbor life. The idea is that looking for earth-like planets is tough enough ...
An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...
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In search of the lost Neptunes
An international team has launched an ambitious program aimed at mapping exoplanets located around the "hot Neptune desert," a zone around the star where Neptune-type planets are largely ...
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In Search of Other Worlds: What Is an Exoplanet?
An illustration of what it might look like to visit Kepler 16 b, a nearby exoplanet with twin suns. Credit: NASA Imagine a planet where molten diamond rains from the sky, hurled sideways by winds that ...
Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I'm joined by the show's two hosts, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. Hello, hello. REGINA BARBER AND EMILY KWONG: Hey, Ailsa ...
Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they block their star's light and by the way they make their stars wobble, and ...
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