Learn how exoplanets are discovered, what makes planets beyond our solar system unique, and how they drive the ongoing search ...
Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...
A giant exoplanet orbiting a nearby dwarf star has been found in an ideal location for next-generation telescopes to search ...
As telescopes have become more powerful, it's turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...
An Electron rocket carrying the QPS-SAR-14 satellite, nicknamed Yachihoko-I, is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab's New ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing ...
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First 3D Map of an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere Revealed

The first world beyond our Solar System to be mapped in three dimensions a gas giant almost ten times more massive than ...
Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within a compact binary star system. This rare configuration, where planets circle two stars simultaneously, ...
Astronomers detect doubly deuterated heavy water in a planetary formation disk for the first time ever in a system named V883 ...
Ageing stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and the University of ...
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket will launch the big and powerful ViaSat-3 F2 satellite to orbit today (Nov. 5), ...