Astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of exomoons, but a molecular signal around a far away star offers some of the ...

These extremely low density cotton candy exoplanets—known as super-puffs —are a big puzzle for astronomers trying to figure ...

Thanks to rapidly advancing telescope technology, astronomers have detected more than 5,600 planets outside our solar system.

The close-up view shows PDS 70c and its circumplanetary disk center-front, with the larger circumstellar ring-like disk taking up most of the right-hand side of the image. The star PDS 70 is at ...

Studying exoplanets is not easy. Despite enormous steps forward in technology, models, and observational tricks, astronomers ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

The reason it's so marvelous is that tiny exoplanets are really, really hard to find. Although Barnard b is not habitable to life as we know it, its discovery is leading us closer to the ...

BHUBANESWAR: In a significant discovery, astronomers from National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), ...

Matthews et al. overcame these difficulties by using MIRI to detect mid-infrared radiation from what could be the coldest and oldest exoplanet ever imaged. The age range of its star, ε Indi A ...

This is the first exoplanet detection made as part of the NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS). The finding ... An international group of researchers including University of Arizona astronomers ...