In the late 1970s, Saturn’s odd moon Titan, a hazy orange world ... For nearly a decade, Zahnle set that problem aside. But in the mid-2010s, exoplanets started to “fall thick as snow,” he said. And ...

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

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly after NASA/Ames Research Center/Wendy Stenzel The transit method is far and away the most successful way to discover exoplanets. Transit surveys monitor stars ...

Long before astronomers discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, the idea of worlds orbiting distant stars captivated the minds of academics and dreamers alike. As far back as the 16th century, ...

Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when they cross in front of their host star. This "transiting method" was how Webb indirectly detected CO 2 in the atmosphere ...

These dots are gas giant exoplanets captured by Webb's camera - the clearest infrared look we've gotten yet! Webb also detected carbon dioxide and heavy elements in the planets - evidence they may ...