Scientists have developed a new technique that could help them understand "polka dot" stars using the transits of exoplanets.

Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

Astronomers are amazed to have discovered a baby exoplanet gobbling up matter around an infant star like a planetary Pac-Man.

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Astronomers discover 7 potentially habitable exoplanets orbiting nearby dwarf star The planets have been nicknamed Earth's seven sisters.

Exoplanet habitability depends on a whole host of factors, with liquid water at the top of the list. It also requires a ...

As missions like Kepler and TESS discovered more rocky exoplanets in recent years, scientists looked forward to the launch of ...

Dark matter could gather at the heart of Jupiter-sized worlds, eventually creating a black hole that eats its way out of its ...

Trying to detect specific gases in distant exoplanet atmospheres introduces even more uncertainty ... that is highly unlikely to have occurred by chance, the observations must meet a five-sigma ...

Astronomers can only rarely see an exoplanet directly, which means they mostly rely on the study of “transits,” or the shadows created when exoplanets pass between the Earth and their own host ...

Discovery of 'super-Earth' exoplanet not as 'strange' as some reports claim The discovery of a new exoplanet garnered some big, though somewhat misinformed, reactions online.

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded jointly to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi for their groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of ... Continue Reading → ...