In the study, JWST detected possible traces of dimethyl sulfide, a chemical known to be emitted only by phytoplankton on ...

Most of those observations were made by the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which for four consecutive years kept an eye on a small patch of sky containing a few hundred thousand stars.

Luke Skywalker would feel right at home on Kepler-16b. This exoplanet is the first known circumbinary planet — a planet that orbits two stars at the same time, just like Tatooine from the Star ...

The first planetary system discovered was nothing like our own. It was more like a zombie solar system. Appropriately named ...

A steam-shrouded planet unlike any we’ve seen before has been detected nearly 100 light years away. The planet, known as GJ ...

Located around 100 light-years away from Earth, the exoplanet is shrouded in a thick envelope of steam. This world, designated GJ 9827 d, is around twice the size of Earth, three times more massive ...

"It's exciting to identify a system like this because they're rarely found, but they may be more common than current tallies ...

To date, nearly 7,000 exoplanets have been identified around stars in our region of the Galaxy. By extrapolation, it is estimated that almost every star in the Galaxy has one or more planets. Over the ...

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