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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...