So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

A fresh look at past data reveals that exoplanets with masses similar to ... author of the study and an assistant professor in astronomy at Ohio State. The results could lead scientists to re ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

TOI-1453: Sub-Neptune in System of Two Exoplanets Mar. 14, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super ...

Astronomy on Tap ATX is partnering with C. L. Butaud for Astronomy Uncorked. How do astronomers discover planets orbiting distant stars? What have they found, and how do these exoplanets differ from ...

An illustration depicts what the surface of one of the exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star may look like. The other three planets within the system can also be seen. - International Gemini ...

This discovery, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics ... Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the HARPS-N high-resolution spectrograph, the ...

Zach Berta-Thompson observes transiting exoplanets -- those that pass in front of their stars as seen from Earth, resulting in periodic dimmings. Specializing in time-series photometry and ...

Astronomers have been recording the signal for more than four decades, but this is the first time they've nabbed its origin.